Person to Person Biological Heat Bypass During EVA Emergencies

2007-01-3209

07/09/2007

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
Authors Abstract
Content
During EVA and other extreme environments, mutual human support is sometimes the last way to survive when there is a failure of the life support equipment. The possibility to transfer a warming fluid from one individual to another to increase heat and support the thermal balance of the individual with system failure was assessed. The following analog scenarios were considered: 1. one subject has a cooling system that is not working well and already has a body heat deficit equal to 100-120 kcal and a finger temperature decline to 26-27ºC, the other subject is at comfort level; 2. one subject is overcooled due to system failure and the other is mildly overheated. Preliminary findings showed promise in using such thermal sharing tactics to extend the time duration of survival in extreme situations when there is an increased metabolic rate in the donor.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-3209
Pages
7
Citation
Koscheyev, V., Lee, J., Kim, J., Berowski, A. et al., "Person to Person Biological Heat Bypass During EVA Emergencies," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-3209, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-3209.
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Publisher
Published
Jul 9, 2007
Product Code
2007-01-3209
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English