Accession Number:
AD0729787
Title:
Training to Improve Endurance in Exhausting Work of Men Wearing Protective Masks: A Review and Some Preliminary Experiments
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept. Jul-Oct 1970
Corporate Author:
EDGEWOOD ARSENAL ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1971-07-01
Pagination or Media Count:
25.0
Abstract:
In order to identify some of the problems involved in protective mask training, small groups of medical volunteers were tested in exhausting work before and after 3 or 8 days of training. The men wore M9 and M17 masks with filters removed and with various inspiratory and expiratory resistances added. In addition to the resistance of the filter, the facepiece without the filter had a degrading effect on endurance. Available evidence indicates that physical fitness is a factor in endurance while wearing the protective mask. In inexperienced men the ratio of endurance when masked to endurance when unmasked is not affected by fitness.
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Subject Categories:
- Stress Physiology
- Protective Equipment