conclusions the results showed that the heat stress increased by increasing air velocity and humidity in both groups. the air velocity with high humidity can be considered as a positive factor in the occurrence of heat strain. therefore, the incidence of heat stress decreases with the increase of humidity and reduction of air velocity or with increase of air velocity and reduction of humidity i...

Introduction: Current Thermal cycling units fail to simulate the drinking behaviors, and oral balancing temperature. They cannot also simulate other oral conditions such as drink coloring, and chemicals like tea, coffee, carbonated and noncarbonated, citrus juices as well as alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks and also saliva and milk itself. The main objective of this study is to introduce the d...

background: heat stress is a common and usual problem in industries. several indices, including wet bulb globe temperature (wbgt), are used to evaluate heat stress. however, wbgt index has limitations such as high cost and response time. it is not thus suitable as a screening tool. heat strain scoring index (hssi) is also an observational-judgmental technique that has been developed for primary...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the oral carbohydrate solution administered preoperatively on thermoregulation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 40 female patients under general anesthesia. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: Group CONT (stopped oral implementation 8 h before the operation) and Group CHO (800ml oral carbohydrate fluid 8 h before the operation and 400ml ora...

BACKGROUND Monitoring of body temperature is an important clinical procedure in the care of sick children, especially the under-5 children, as many disease conditions present with fever. The oral mercury-in-glass thermometer which has relatively good accuracy cannot be used in children less than 5 years because it requires their cooperation. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at using the infrare...

OBJECTIVE To determine, on the basis of published studies, the efficacy of rectal vs oral acetaminophen as treatment of fever and pain. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, PubMed, and the Cochrane database as well as major pharmacologic textbooks and the references of all included studies were searched for studies comparing oral and rectal administration of acetaminophen. STUDY SELECTION Randomized and q...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence, onset, duration and severity of hot flashes in men after bilateral orchidectomy (BO) for prostate cancer, to evaluate body temperature changes during hot flashes and to determine whether an elevated temperature within a few days after BO can be caused by deprivation of androgen. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (n = 101) were questioned about the characterist...

most of iranian oil terminals are located in tropical regions and consequently, disorders of heat stress among workers are expected. there are many heat stress indices with self-advantages and disadvantages which are used for evaluating the amount of heat stress. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the reliability of wbgt, et and cet indices by comparison to core body temperature in kh...