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Fractional Effective Dose (FED)

A physiological model that combines exposure to CO, HCN, CO2, reduced O2, and heat into a cumulative incapacitation estimate. Used with FDS outputs to determine when an occupant at a specific location would have been incapacitated or could no longer escape.

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