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Published in: Critical Care 5/2009

01-10-2009 | Letter

Respirator fit-testing - will we pass the test?

Authors: Abhijoy Chakladar, Peter O Beaumont, David R Uncles

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 5/2009

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The UK Health Protection Agency advises health care workers caring for patients with probable or confirmed flu-like illnesses, with serious respiratory illnesses or where aerosol generating procedures are being undertaken to use a filtering face piece-3 (FFP3) respirator [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
Respirator fit-testing - will we pass the test?
Authors
Abhijoy Chakladar
Peter O Beaumont
David R Uncles
Publication date
01-10-2009
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 5/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8031

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