Primary source record · PMID 17673561
Skin-surface cooling elicits peripheral and visceral vasoconstriction in humans
Thad E Wilson, Charity L Sauder, Matthew L Kearney, Nathan T Kuipers, Urs A Leuenberger, Kevin D Monahan, Chester A Ray
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Physiology, 2007
- Study type
- controlled trial
- Cold method
- environmental cold
- DOI
- 10.1152/japplphysiol.00401.2007
Population
Fourteen supine human participants across 26 cooling trials
Exposure conditions
15–18 °C water perfused through a tube-lined suit. 20 minutes.
Outcome measured
Skin temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, and regional vascular conductance
Limitations
Small laboratory study. The water-perfused suit is not The Ice Sack and did not use the Neuropause protocol.
Claims using this source
Whole-body skin-surface cooling can increase arterial pressure and reduce peripheral and visceral vascular conductance without necessarily changing heart rate.Heart-rate, blood-pressure, and cardiac-autonomic responses to cold exposure vary with the cooling method, exposure conditions, timing, and participant characteristics.Cold-delivery methods differ in medium, contact, coverage, temperature profile, and heat-transfer conditions; results from one method should not be assumed to transfer directly to another.