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Using ingestible telemetric temperature pills, eight skin temperature sensors, blood pressure equipment, and the Thermal Sensation Questionnaire, experiments were conducted with 11 healthy male volunteers wearing highly insulating cold protective clothing. The most notorious alterations were reported in mean skin temperatures and thermal sensation responses during the first 20 min of cold exposure. Among the eight skin temperature points, the forehead and left hand showed a higher sensitivity to cold. The mean core temperature reported significant variations throughout the protocol, with decreases during the initial 10 min of cold exposure and posterior increases despite the cold environment. Blood pressure showed slight increases from the initial to the recovery period. Overall, outcomes contribute to current scientific knowledge on physiological and perception responses in extremely cold environments while describing the influence of protective clothing and occupational activities on these responses. Future research should be developed with additional skin temperature measurements in the extremities (fingers, face, and toes) and the analysis of thermal sensation potential associations with performance changes, which can also be of great significance for future thermal comfort models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/safety10010019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,12]],"date-time":"2024-02-12T04:47:45Z","timestamp":1707713265000},"page":"19","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Physiological and Thermal Sensation Responses to Severe Cold Exposure (\u221220 \u00b0C)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Tomi","family":"Zlatar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Atlantic Technological University Sligo, F91 YW50 Sligo, Ireland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4942-7625","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Denisse","family":"Bustos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aerospace\u2014LAETA (PROA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Torres","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aerospace\u2014LAETA (PROA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8524-5503","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo\u00e3o Santos","family":"Baptista","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aerospace\u2014LAETA (PROA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2367-2187","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joana","family":"Guedes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aerospace\u2014LAETA (PROA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ssci.2019.01.014","article-title":"A review of cold exposure and manual performance: Implications for safety, training and performance","volume":"115","author":"Ray","year":"2019","journal-title":"Saf. 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