A Study on the Lower Limit of Range of Optimum Temperature and Relative Humidity for Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries

Abstract

Five patients with cervical spinal cord injuries were exposed to the room temperature of 22℃ (RH: 40, 50, 70％; amount of clothing: 0.6clo) for 90 minutes, respectively, in this study. As a result, the oral temperature for patients with cervical spinal cord injuries linearly decreased at every relative humidity starting from 20 minutes after the experiment began. Therefore, the room temperature of 22℃ may be outside of the scope of optimum temperature for the patients with cervical spinal cord injuries regardless of the level of relative humidity. The lower limit of optimum temperature and humidity is considered to be 23℃ and 50％RH at this point; however, the influence of the relative humidity difference at room temperature of 23℃ needs to be considered.