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What is Cooling Vest?

A cooling vest or ice vest is a piece of equipment worn to cool a person down. Cooling vests are used by many sporting bodies, industry workers, doctors, and people with Multiple Sclerosis.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Heat intolerance 52 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 13 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_none
Fatigue 8 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Other 5 3 Efficacy_major
Nerve pain (neuralgia) 2 0
Improve mobility 1 0

See all 79 patients currently using Cooling Vest

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 1
None
 13

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Cooling Vest

weight can be heavy use only ice packs that are needed 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 5   Other: 50%
Did not seem to work 2   Did not seem to work: 20%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 10%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 10%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 10%

See all 10 patients who’ve stopped using Cooling Vest

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Cooling Vest

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Cooling Vest

Always
 3 21%
Usually
 6 43%
Sometimes
 4 29%
Never
 1 7%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Cooling Vest

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 2 14%
A little
 6 43%
Not at all
 6 43%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Cooling Vest

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 8 100%

Report created on May 27, 2012.