NCT04613843

Cold Water Immersion Stirring in Hyperthermic Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 39 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The best way to cool a very hot person is using cold water immersion, however, the optimization of this technique has not been established. The goal of this study is to determine differences in cooling rates among two types of cold water immersion and passive cooling following immersion.

Conditions

• Hyperthermia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Water Stirring	Following an active heating protocol, the cooling intervention includes vigorous water stirring throughout cold water immersion.
OTHER	No Water Stirring	Following an active heating protocol, the cooling intervention includes no water stirring throughout cold water immersion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-23
• Primary completion: 2022-05-01
• Completion: 2022-05-01
• First posted: 2020-11-03
• Last updated: 2022-07-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States