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Better respiratory equipment using advanced technologies for healthcare employees (Project B.R.E.A.T.H.E.) : an interagency working group of the U.S. federal government
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2009
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Corporate Authors:United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. ; United States. Veterans Health Administration. Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. ; National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. ; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ; ... More +
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Description:The Better Respiratory Equipment using Advanced Technologies for Healthcare Employees (Project BREATHE) Working Group (WG) is a U.S. Federal government interagency effort, initiated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, whose purpose is to develop a set of consensus recommendations that aim to improve respiratory protective equipment used by healthcare workers (HCWs). With representatives from nine (9) Federal departments and agencies, this multi-disciplinary team had a broad range of expertise, including pandemic and emergency preparedness, infectious disease medicine and epidemiology, respirator and personal protective equipment policy and regulation, occupational and environmental medicine, respirator and materials science, infection control, respirator physiology and physics and bio-security. The WG was co-chaired by staff from the Veterans Administration (VA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This report consists of 28 consensus recommendations for consideration by respirator manufacturers, research organizations, consensus standards development organizations, and respirator users and their employers.
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