Moderate Thermal Strain in Healthcare Workers Wearing Personal Protective Equipment during Treatment and Care Activities in the Context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1462-1465

  Grélot, Laurent ^a   Koulibaly, Fassou ^j   Maugey, Nancy ^c   Janvier, Fédric ^e   Foissaud, Vincent ^f   Aletti, Marc ^f   Savini, Hélène ^b   Cotte, Jean ^e   Dampierre, Henry ^g   Granier, Hervé ^d   Carmoi, Thierry ^h,i   Sagui, Emmanuel ^a,b,i,k  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b LAVERAN MILITARY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (France)

^c FREMM Aquitaine BCRM Brest ^*  (France)

^d Military Teaching Hospital Clermont Tonnerre   (France)

^e Military Teaching Hospital Sainte Anne   (France)

^f PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g Fort Neuf de Vincennes   (France)

^h Internal Medicine Department   (France)

ⁱ Val de Grace School of Military Medicine   (France)

^j Guinean Military Health Services   (Guinea)

^k French Military Teaching Hospital Laveran   (France)

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Author keywords

core body temperature; Ebola virus disease outbreak; healthcare workers; heat stress; personal protective equipment; treatment and care activities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEHYDRATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART RATE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY; SENSOR; AMBULATORY MONITORING; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERMOMETRY;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEART RATE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THERMOMETRY;

EID: 84971671347     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv585     Document Type: Article

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