• The classification of freezing cold injuries - a NATO research task group position paper 

      Norheim, Arne Johan; Sullivan-Kwantes, Wendy; Steinberg, Tuva; Castellani, John; Friedl, Karl E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-21)
      Introduction: Freezing cold injuries (FCI) are a common risk in extreme cold weather operations. Although the risks have long been recognised, injury occurrences tend to be sparse and geographically distributed, with relatively few cases to study in a systematic way. The first challenge to improve FCI medical management is to develop a common nomenclature for FCI classification. This is critical for ...
    • Human performance and medical treatment during cold weather operations - synthesis of a symposium 

      Mekjavic, Igor B; Norheim, Arne Johan; Friedl, Karl E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-18)
      In October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations. This paper represents a summary of the research presentations and future directions. The importance of realistic training was an overarching theme. Many reported studies took advantage of cold weather ...
    • Introduction: Training is more important than technology (for performance in the cold) 

      Friedl, Karl E.; Hasselstrom, Henriette; Kingma, Boris R.M.; Norheim, Arne Johan; Ojanen, Tommi; Sullivan-Kwantes, Wendy; Teien, Hilde Kristin; White, Graham (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-27)
      After more than 50 years of studying soldiers in the cold, we are well past the phase of defining the unique problems; the research requirements are known but the solutions have been slow in coming. This requires iterative testing of proposed lab-based solutions with soldiers in the real environment. Representing a renewed effort to produce and implement solutions to human biomedical challenges in ...