Isoflurane leakage from non-rebreathing rodent anaesthesia circuits: Comparison of emissions from conventional and modified ports

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 200-209

  Smith, Jennifer ^a   Bolon, B ^a,b  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b GEMpath Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Emission; Isoflurane; Rodent; Waste anaesthetic gas

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLLUTION; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33646229080     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367706776318999     Document Type: Article

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