Conductive heat exchange with a gel-coated circulating water mattress

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1742-1746

  Bräuer, Anselm ^a   Pacholik, Larissa ^a   Perl, Thorsten ^a   English, Michael John Murray ^b   Weyland, Wolfgang ^c   Braun, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Evangelisches Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GEL; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AIR MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; GELS; HEAT; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; REWARMING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 9244248692     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000136777.71814.7A     Document Type: Article

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