Anaesthetic room pollution

Operating room air pollution: influence of anaesthetic circuit, vapour concentration, gas flow and ventilation.

Atmospheric halothane was sampled from three selected operating theatres and anaesthetic rooms during the middle of operating sessions. Two of the operating theatres studied were ventilated with total air exchange once every six minutes; the third operating theatre had no ventilation. End-tidal samples were obtained from anaesthetists. Halothane vapour concentrations were analysed by gas-liquid...

Operating room pollution--or is it contamination?

Keeping anaesthetic pollution to minimum in theatre environment

Anaesthetic gases and vapours are a potential pollutant in veterinary practices, with a prolonged lifetime of up to 120 years in the atmosphere. They impact not only on ozone depletion and, consequently, on global warming, but also on the health of operating theatre staff. In 2014, 2 of the 30 human adverse events reported involving veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in the UK were due t...

Risks of Operating Room Air Pollution By Inhalation Anesthetics

Pendant Les annees dernieres la Pollution de l, athmosphere des salles d, Operation Par les anesthesiques volatils et Gazeux est bien etu­diee et la consequence Pathologique de cette Pollution est certaine; c, est Poruquois nous som­mes obliges de diminuer cette Pollution et em­pecher de se repandre ces agents dans les salles d, Operation. 

Air pollution and unscheduled hospital outpatient and emergency room visits.

We conducted a time-series analysis of daily hospital visits and air pollution data to assess acute effects of air pollution on daily unscheduled outpatient visits to internal medicine, pediatric, and emergency departments in the No. 3 Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical University in Beijing, China. Sulfur dioxide was marginally significantly associated with total outpatient visits (beta = ...