Exposure of operating room personnel to nitrous oxide during paediatric anaesthesia
โ Scribed by Catherine Wood; Alastair Ewen; Gerald Goresky; Shane Sheppard
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1496-8975
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**Summary** Paediatric anaesthetists are at higher risk of exposure to waste anaesthetic gases, which often exceed set safety limits. Recommended personal diffusive sampling techniques for monitoring exposure to waste anaesthetic gases may not give a true profile of exposure and hence biological sam