Scavenging in the operating room

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 611-617

  Panni, Moeen K ^a   Corn, Stephen B ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; Operating room scavenging; Waste anesthetic gas

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC GAS; DESFLURANE; ENFLURANE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTAMINATION; DEVICE; DRUG EXPOSURE; FACE MASK; GAS; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS WASTE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INHALATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MACHINE; MEASUREMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OPERATING ROOM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; STANDARD; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TOXICITY; VALVE; VENTILATOR;

EID: 2942519307     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200312000-00007     Document Type: Review

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