Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Sep 1997
[Pollution of the work environment by volatile anesthetics and nitrous oxide].
Anaesthetic personnel is exposed to different workload conditions. The individual impact is influenced by external factors and human stress stability. Different symptoms reported to be present in anaesthetic personnel are comparable to symptoms of the sick building syndrome, defined by the WHO in the 90's. ⋯ All reviewers do not discuss the fact, that all of these co-factors are present in the reality of the anaesthetic workplace. Thus, the studies by Corbett, enthusiastically criticized by different reviewers, simulate the all-day reality of the anaesthetic workplace more precisely than controlled experiments conducted, for example, by Eger and co-workers. The results of animal experiments and retrospective studies therefore do not justify realization of large controlled prospective studies but require the overall revision of the anaesthesiological workplace and the reduction of occupational waste gas exposure to the lowest possible levels below all chronic exposure threshold values.