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Energy Expenditure of Disaster Relief Operations Estimated Using a Tri-Axial Accelerometer and a Wearable Heart Rate Monitor

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  • Nao Koizumi

    (Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan)

  • Hitomi Ogata

    (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan)

  • Yutaro Negishi

    (Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan)

  • Hisashi Nagayama

    (Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan)

  • Miki Kaneko

    (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 565-8531, Japan)

  • Ken Kiyono

    (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 565-8531, Japan)

  • Naomi Omi

    (Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan)

Abstract

The management of nutrition, food, and health for disaster relief personnel is one of the crucial aspects for carrying out effective rescue activities during large-scale natural disasters, such as a big earthquake, flooding, and landslide following heavy rainfall or man-made disasters, such as widespread fire in industrial areas. Rescue workers, such as fire fighters and rescue teams who work on the disaster relief operations, have to work long, hard, and irregular hours that require energy (both intake and expenditure), with especially altered eating patterns. Reliable estimates of the energy expenditure (TEE) for such disaster relief operations have not been fully established. Here, we propose to clarify the energy expenditure for each type of large-scale disaster activity conducted by fire fighters. Thirty fire fighters (survey participants in this research) who participated in the simulation training of large-scale disaster activities wore tri-axial accelerometers and heart rate monitors during training; and, post-training, 28 fire fighters submitted complete activity record tables. An estimation formula combining tri-axial accelerometer and heart rate monitor data was used. Additionally, energy expenditure per hour (excluding resting energy expenditure: REE) (per average body weight of participants) was calculated for 10 types of large-scale disaster response activities. We propose utilization of these data as a reference value for examining the TEE of firefighting and rescue operations in future large-scale disasters.

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  • Nao Koizumi & Hitomi Ogata & Yutaro Negishi & Hisashi Nagayama & Miki Kaneko & Ken Kiyono & Naomi Omi, 2023. "Energy Expenditure of Disaster Relief Operations Estimated Using a Tri-Axial Accelerometer and a Wearable Heart Rate Monitor," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(9), pages 1-11, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:9:p:5742-:d:1141506
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    1. Chiaki Tanaka & Yuki Hikihara & Takafumi Ando & Yoshitake Oshima & Chiyoko Usui & Yuji Ohgi & Koichi Kaneda & Shigeho Tanaka, 2019. "Prediction of Physical Activity Intensity with Accelerometry in Young Children," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-11, March.
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