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| 1178-12 | Other Identifier | IDF |
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The purpose of this preliminary experiment is to measure the effect of a novel ventilation system on the physiological strain during exercise in high heat load while wearing ballistic protective vest. Ten young and healthy participants will participate in the study. They will all go through a six days heat acclimation period in a heat chamber according to a valid protocol. Afterwards they will be randomly exposed to 4 conditions during four separate consecutive days.
Ten young and healthy civilian participants will participate in the study. They will all go through a six days heat acclimation period in a heat chamber according to a valid protocol. After heat acclimation the participant will be randomly exposed to 4 conditions during four separate consecutive days: 1) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-wet conditions (30OC, 70% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest (control group); 2) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-dry conditions (40OC, 30% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest (control group); 3) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-wet conditions (30OC, 70% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest with a ventilator (experimental group); 4) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-dry conditions (40OC, 30% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest with a ventilator (experimental group). During the heat exposures, rectal temperature, skin temperature and heart rate will be continuously monitored. Subjective comfort measures, heat strain indices, sweat rate and sweat evaporation will be also measured/calculated. The differences in the above measures, during exposure to exercise in the heat between ventilator and no ventilator will be then analyzed.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Research arm | Experimental | Each of the participants will be randomly exposed to 4 conditions during four separate consecutive days. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Research intervention | Other | After heat acclimation the participant will be randomly exposed to 4 conditions during four separate consecutive days: 1) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-wet conditions (30OC, 70% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest (control group); 2) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-dry conditions (40OC, 30% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest (control group); 3) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-wet conditions (30OC, 70% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest with a ventilator (experimental group); 4) walking on a treadmill for two hours in hot-dry conditions (40OC, 30% RH) while wearing military uniforms and a vest with a ventilator (experimental group) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Heat tolerance test | The test is performed in a climatic chamber at a temperature of 40oC and 40% relative humidity. During the test, the subject walks on a treadmill at a speed of 5 km/hr at a 2% grade for 2h. Body core temperature and heart rate are continuously monitored, and sweat rate is computed from body weight prior to and after the test, corrected for fluid intake. Heat intolerance is determined when body core temperature elevates above 38.5oC, when heart rate elevates above 150 bpm, or when either does not tend to reach a plateau. | 1 year |
| Maximal oxygen consumption test | Volunteer's oxygen consumption (VO2) will be monitored continuously with a metabolic chart (ZAN), while running for 10 min on a treadmill under comfortable environmental conditions. | 1 year |
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| Skin temperature | The volunteers will undergo heat tolerance test. Their skin temperature will be measured by skin thermistors and will be monitored continuously and viewed by the attending medical staff. Automatically all data will be recorded by the monitoring Biopac system. | 1 year |
| Rectal temperature |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Barliz Adato, MD | Contact | +972542662201 | Barliz.Adato@sheba.health.gov.il |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Barliz Adato, MD | Sheba Medical Center | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Sheba medical center | Tel-Hashomer, Ramat- Gan | Israel |
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| D001832 | Body Temperature Changes |
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| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| D015444 | Exercise |
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| D009043 | Motor Activity |
| D009068 | Movement |
| D009142 | Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena |
| D055687 | Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena |
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The volunteers will undergo heat tolerance test. Their rectal temperature will be measured by rectal thermistor and will be monitored continuously and viewed by the attending medical staff. Automatically all data will be recorded by the monitoring Biopac system. |
| 1 year |
| Heart rate | During the HTT and the VO2 test heart rates will be monitored continuously and will be stored by a heart rate wristwatch, (POLAR, Finland). | 1 year |