Quality of the air and health assessment of the medical staff handling disinfection chemicals in Lithuanian Hospitals

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 105-111

  Glumbakaite, Edita ^b   Žymantiene, Zita ^c   Šeškauskas, Viktoras ^c   Smolianskiene, Gražina ^c   Jurkuvenas, Vytautas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chlorine; Disinfectants; Ethyl alcohol; Glutaraldehyde; Hydrogen peroxide; Isopropyl alcohol; Protective equipment

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTACT DERMATITIS; COUGHING; DISINFECTION; DYSPNEA; EYE IRRITATION; FACE MASK; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLOVE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; LARYNGITIS; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PRURITUS; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; WHEEZING;

EID: 0038172407     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03012001017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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