Effect of respiratory protection equipments wear on heart rate in different workload

International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Khodarahmi, Behnam ^a   Dehghan, Habibollah ^a   Motamedzadeh, Majid ^b   Zeinodini, Mohammad ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Mohsen ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Respiratory protective equipments; workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908219227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22779183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2277-9183.113216     Document Type: Article

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