Health Hazard Evaluation Report HE 80-105-763: School of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University: Auburn, Alabama

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• Personal Author:
  Patnode, Richard H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Personal and area environmental samples were analyzed for the presence of nitrous-oxide (10024972), halothane (151677), and methoxyflurane (76380) at the Large and Small Animal Surgery areas in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University (SIC-8221), in Auburn, Alabama, from June 24 to 26, 1980. The evaluation was requested by the campus safety engineer of the university to determine exposure concentrations of waste anesthetic gases used to anesthetize animals for surgery. During routine procedures, a maximum of 10 and 60 students and employees are exposed in the large and small animal surgery areas, respectively. Exposures of halothane without scavenging, methyoxyflurane without scavenging and nitrous-oxide with and without scavenging ranged from 1.0 to 4.8, 1.3 to 3.3, 10 to 25 and 7 to 55 parts per million (ppm), respectively, partially exceeding the corresponding recommended standards of 2, 2, 25 and 25ppm. The author concludes that exposure concentrations are within acceptable limits only when scavenging equipment is used. The author notes that after a December 1979 survey, he had recommended that scavenging equipment be installed and utilized. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Anesthesia Halothane Health Personnel Health Surveys Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Veterinarians
• Keywords:
  Anesthetic Gases Anesthetics Colleges, Universities, And Professional Schools Hazards-Unconfirmed Health-survey HHE-80-105-763 Methoxyflurane NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Nitrous Oxide Occupational-health OSHA Region 4

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE80105763
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Auburn (AL) ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Lee, Stephen A. ; Salisbury, Stanley A. ; Greeley, Lee ; Brown, Odessa
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00112016
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-149733
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 80-105-763, 1980 Nov ; :1-12
• CAS Registry Number:
  Nitrous oxide (CAS RN 10024-97-2) ; Halothane (CAS RN 151-67-7) ; Methoxyflurane (CAS RN 76-38-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8221 - Colleges and universities - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8cc0f0d6a3d8a1a8c0f7c796508676fc622ff4ba16e6aaa4f9c17d354ecf85e77e2db4bc59afbdb0bfb658d5d45786233bb0f4a4b5b44c90107c55518ca3afff
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173453/cdc_173453_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.06 MB ]