Occupational exposure to inhalational anesthetics during cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1924-1927

  Mierdl, Stephan ^b   Byhahn, Christian ^b   Abdel Rahman, Ulf ^b   Matheis, Georg ^b   Westphal, Klaus ^a  

^a Katharina Kasper gGmbH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METHYL ETHERS; NITROUS OXIDE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOMS; VENTILATION;

EID: 0037636493     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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