Biological monitoring of occupational exposure to enflurane (ethrane) in operating room personnel.

Archives of Environmental Health | March 1, 1994| | Copyright

THE BIOLOGICAL CHANGES and the adverse effects produced by the main inhalation anesthetics have been studied mostly in experimental animals; human studies have mainly dealt with patients receiving presurgical anesthesia. Studies are lacking on subjects chronically exposed to these substances for occupational reasons.[1] Enflurane (ethrane; CAS 13838-16-9), alone or in combination with nitrous oxide ([N.sub.2]O), is used widely as general inhalation anesthetic. Occupationally exposed groups include anesthesiologists, other physicians (e.g., surgeons), and operating room ...

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