Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No.77-112-447: The Hospital for Special Surgery: New York City, New York 10021

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• Personal Author:
  Kronoveter, Kenneth J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation determination was performed by NIOSH on September 20-22, 1977, in the operating suite of the Hospital for Special Surgery (SIC-8069), New York City, New York. The survey was prompted by a request from the management expressing concern that, despite the presence of a scavenging system, a quantitative analysis of operating room exposures to anesthetic gases was not available. On the basis of environmental sampling, it was concluded that exposures to nitrous-oxide (10024972), halothane (151677) and enflurane, presented a hazard to the operating room personnel. On the contrary, exposures to methyl-methacrylate (80626) did not present a hazard to the employees. Recommendations are made for the control of waste anesthetic gases and vapors in operating rooms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Anesthesia Enflurane Environmental Monitoring Halothane Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Nitrogen Oxides Occupational Health Safety Toxicology Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Anesthetics Bone Cement Cements Halogenated-hydrocarbons Hazard-Confirmed Health-care-facilities HHE-77-112-447 Methyl Methacrylate NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Nitrogen-oxides Nitrous Oxide OSHA Region 2 Toxic-chemicals Waste Anesthetic Gases

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE77112447
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; New York (NY) ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:
  14 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Fannick, Nicholas ; Ivory, Margaret A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00076126
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-278041
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 77-112-447, 1977 Dec ; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Nitrous oxide (CAS RN 10024-97-2) ; Halothane (CAS RN 151-67-7) ; 2-Propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, methyl ester (CAS RN 80-62-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8069 - Specialty hospitals except psychiatric - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:333712986808fbf21265b55246269dbeb5babd1e2edde2648d5027e45446a4ffee6f2629432fdf28e379e0b9b4a343e34a019fddeebfa380f5da660e581e7736
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173864/cdc_173864_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 772.34 KB ]