COVID-19: Cooling vests could alleviate heat strain caused by PPE

[TheMoonisMyLantern, LPN, RN]

PLEASE give me a cooling vest, I burn up every night under all this garb. 

 

https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/research/cooling-vests-could-alleviate-heat-strain-caused-by-PPE/

[Davey Do]

 Groovy, TMIML!

Belinda, my medical nurse wife, says she sweats like a stoker under the PPE and that is such a cool (no pun intended) idea!

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[TheMoonisMyLantern, LPN, RN]

Link fixed! 

It is very hot under all that PPE and staying in it for 8-12 hours working the Covid unit is just miserable. 

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

We have cooling vests as an option for surgical staff who are scrubbed in. I can definitely see the benefit for those who spend hours in PPE. Me? I’d probably still be cold under all that gear. 

[TheMoonisMyLantern, LPN, RN]

Wow Rose it's amazing you guys have those, I really hope they become more readily available and used. Even without PPE I tend to burn up and I would be fine with sporting a cooling vest ?

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

6 minutes ago, TheMoonisMyLantern said:

Wow Rose it's amazing you guys have those, I really hope they become more readily available and used. Even without PPE I tend to burn up and I would be fine with sporting a cooling vest ?

It’s literally two pockets (front and back), Velcro straps, and 4 ice packs ?. Manufactured to standards of course, not kludged together by random staff members getting creative. 

[Kitiger, RN]

My husband works in a hot environment, and has used a cooling vest for several years. It is a vest with 11 pockets, 6 in front and 5 in back. Each pocket takes a small gel pack, I guess about 2" x 4", that we freeze overnight. 

He does not use the 2 pockets over his nipples!

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