Protective equipment for health care facility decontamination personnel: Regulations, risks, and recommendations

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 370-380

  Hick, John L ^a,g   Hanfling, Dan ^b,c   Burstein, Jonathan L ^d   Markham, Joseph ^e   Macintyre, Anthony G ^c   Barbera, Joseph A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^f George Washington University   (United States)

^g HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOPHOSPHATE;

HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; VENTILATOR; WASTE GAS MANAGEMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0043132403     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00447-5     Document Type: Article

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