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Military Alerting System for Monitoring Body Temperature During Active Cooling

NCT04431596 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2020-12-21

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Summary

BHSAI is developing a computational system that provides early alerts of a rise in core body temperature to help reduce the risk of heat injury in the field and during training. The goal of the body temperature alerting system is to use it during rest, exercise in the heat and during body cooling. Using this system during cooling will allow healthcare professionals and military personnel monitor core temperature to ensure cooling is effective (and prevent hypothermia). Therefore, the primary purpose of this investigation is to validate a body temperature alerting system using physiological responses that occur during rest, exercise in the heat and during body cooling. Multiple cooling modalities will be validated. The effectiveness of each cooling modality (passive cooling, mist-fan cooling, hand/forearm immersion) on physiological variables after exercise in the heat will be assessed. Lastly, subject characteristics (demographic and anthropometric characteristics) will be examined to examine their effect on physiological variables during exercise in the heat and during body cooling with each cooling modality.

Conditions

  • Hyperthermia

Interventions

DEVICE

Forearm cooling

forearm immersion will be performed for active cooling assessment.

OTHER

Mist-fan cooling

A mist-fan will be placed in front of the participant for active cooling.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Connecticut

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Douglas Casa, PhD · University of Connecticut

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-04
Primary Completion
2020-12-09
Completion
2020-12-09

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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