Pollution: Just a whiff of gas? .....

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 467-472

  Sharples, Andrew ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; ANESTHETIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; CHLOROFORM; ETHER; ETHYLENE OXIDE; HALOTHANE; NEOPTERIN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACE MASK; GAS WASTE; GENETIC DAMAGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INFERTILITY; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OPERATING ROOM; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TERATOGENICITY; VAPOR; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0037489432     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.01073.x     Document Type: Editorial

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