Keeping anaesthetic pollution to minimum in theatre environment
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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 to inhaled anaesthetic exposure.
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Investigations of some aspects of atmospheric pollution by anaesthetic gases. I: Diffusion of halothane across plastic and rubber tubes.
Plastic and rubber tubing, of the types used frequently to convey anaesthetic gases to and from the patient, or anaesthetic waste gases out of the operating theatre, were assessed for their capacity to allow diffusion of halothane through the tube wall. The magnitude of this effect has been calculated in relation to pollution of the operating theatre atmosphere under different circumstances.
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