Comparison of waste anesthetic gas exposures to operating room staff during cases using LMAs and ETTs

Chemical Health and Safety

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 19-21

  Tortora, Michael J ^a   Katten, Alan ^a   Lilly, Richard ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC GAS; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GAS WASTE; GENETIC DAMAGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0037654579     PISSN: 10749098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-9098(03)00028-5     Document Type: Article

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4. Plog, Barbara A. Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, 4th ed.; United States, 1996, p. 937.