Control of Nitrous Oxide in Dental Operatories

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• Personal Author:
  Dames, Barbara L. ; Flesch, Jerome P. ; McGlothlin, James D.
• Description:
  Dental workers are exposed to nitrous oxide (N2O) during administration of this anesthetic gas to patients. Exposures should be minimized to prevent short-term behavioral and long-term reproductive health effects that can be produced by N2O. NIOSH research has shown controls including system maintenance, ventilation, and work practices can effectively reduce N2O concentrations in dental operations to approximately 25 ppm during analgesia administration, the exposure limit recommended by NIOSH. Uncontrolled exposures to N2O have exceeded 1000 ppm. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Anesthesia Dental Offices Environmental Monitoring Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-monitoring Anesthetics Dentistry Dentists Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Ventilation-systems
• ISSN:
  1047-322X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  218-220
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031556
• Citation:
  Appl Occup Environ Hyg 1999 Apr; 14(4):218-220
• CAS Registry Number:
  Nitrous oxide (CAS RN 10024-97-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e15d91ae8bfa88c12d0665ae46a112a1be5f56d9eeaacef68d1fe8d21fc89b90969d7be883f442aef2d2c1d0450331621619caf7ee3a66147d9ffc082d81821
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185806/cdc_185806_DS1.pdf
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