Military Alerting System for Monitoring Body Temperature During Active Cooling

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Conditions studied: Hyperthermia

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04431596

Run by

University of Connecticut

People needed

12

Starts

2020-09-04

Expected to finish

2020-12-09

Last updated by the study team

2020-12-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 35. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Cisgender man between the ages of 18-35 years
• been cleared by the medical monitor for this study
• VO2max > 45ml/kg/min

You may not qualify if…

• Have a current musculoskeletal injury that would limit their physical activity or preclude the participant from walking, jogging, running, sprinting, or cutting.
• Chronic health problems that affect your ability to thermoregulate (disorders affecting the liver, kidneys or the ability to sweat normally)
• Fever or current illness at the time of testing
• History of cardiovascular, metabolic, or respiratory disease
• Current musculoskeletal injury that limits their physical activity
• Currently taking a medication that is known to influence body temperature (amphetamines, antihypertensives, anticholinergics, acetaminophen, diuretics, NSAIDs, aspirin)
• Identify as cisgender woman, transgender man or transgender woman
• Have a history of heat related illness

Where it is running

• Gampel Pavilion — Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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