Research Catalog

Title

Preventing transmission of pandemic influenza and other viral respiratory diseases : personal protective equipment for healthcare workers : update 2010 / Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Personnel to Prevent Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Infections: Current Research Issues, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Elaine L. Larson and Catharyn T. Liverman, editors, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Larson, Elaine
• Liverman, Catharyn T.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Personnel to Prevent Transmission of Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral Respiratory Infections: Current Research Issues

Description

xii, 187 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Influenza > Prevention
• Emergency medical personnel > United States > Safety measures
• Occupational Health
• Virus Diseases > prevention & control
• Health Personnel
• Protective clothing
• Protective Clothing
• Communicable diseases > Prevention
• Industrial safety > Equipment and supplies
• Protective Devices
• Respiratory Tract Infections > prevention & control
• Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional > prevention & control
• United States
• Respiratory Protective Devices
• Influenza, Human > prevention & control

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.

Contents

Introduction -- Understanding the risk to healthcare personnel -- Designing and engineering effective PPE -- Using PPE : individual and organizational issues -- Policy research and implementation : healthcare systems, standards, and certification.

ISBN

• 0309162548
• 9780309162548

OCLC

• ocn705518867
• 705518867
• SCSB-8854007

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries