Indoor glutaraldehyde levels in the endoscope disinfecting room and subjective symptoms among workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-229

  Katagiri, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Toshio ^a   Aizawa, Yoshiharu ^b   Kadowaki, Takehiro ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disinfecting room; Endoscope; Glutaraldehyde; Subjective symptom; Working environment

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE DISEASE; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; LACRIMATION; NAUSEA; NOSE DISEASE; OCULAR PRURITUS; PHARYNX DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES; FEMALE; GLUTARAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 33646697736     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.225     Document Type: Article

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