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Abstract
In the last decades, it was proved that working in the
operating rooms (OR) has health hazards on the working
personnel. The hazards are due to pollution of OR by various
pollutants.
The aim of the study is to discuss pollution in the
operating rooms from all its aspects as types, sources of
various pollutants, their hazardous effects and the
recommended safety measures to avoid or at least decrease the
incidence of these hazardous effects.
The types and sources of OR pollutants are classified
into anesthetic pollutants (waste gases), physical pollutants
(radiation including ionizing radiation (x-ray) and non ionizing
radiation (laser) and noise), chemical pollutants (skin-cleaning
fluids and aerosol sprays), biogenic pollutants (bacterial,
fungal and viral) and electrical hazards.
There are many hazards to the various operating room
pollutants; these are hazards to the medical staff and hazards to
the medical staff and patients.
The hazards to medical staff are hazardous effects of
chronic repeated exposure of OR personnel to waste
inhalational anesthetics, hazards of repeated exposure to noise,
chemical dependence and stress.