Cooling vests alleviate perceptual heat strain perceived by COVID-19 nurses

Cooling vests alleviate perceptual heat strain perceived by COVID-19 nurses

Cooling vests alleviate heat strain. We quantified the perceptual and physiological heat strain and assessed the effects of wearing a 21°C phase change material cooling vest on these measures during work shifts of COVID-19 nurses wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). Seventeen nurses were mon...

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Veröffentlicht in:Temperature (Austin) 2022, Vol.9 (1), p.103-113
Hauptverfasser: de Korte, Johannus Q., Bongers, Coen C. W. G., Catoire, Milène, Kingma, Boris R. M., Eijsvogels, Thijs M. H.
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Sprache:eng
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cooling vest
COVID-19 pandemic
Research Paper
Thermal comfort
thermal sensation
thermoregulation
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Zusammenfassung:Cooling vests alleviate heat strain. We quantified the perceptual and physiological heat strain and assessed the effects of wearing a 21°C phase change material cooling vest on these measures during work shifts of COVID-19 nurses wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). Seventeen nurses were monitored on two working days, consisting of a control (PPE only) and a cooling vest day (PPE + cooling vest). Sub-PPE air temperature, gastrointestinal temperature (T gi ), and heart rate (HR) were measured continuously. Thermal comfort (2 [1-4] versus 1 [1-2], p condtition  
ISSN:2332-8940
2332-8959
DOI:10.1080/23328940.2020.1868386