title: [Techniques for evaluating the level of pollution in operating rooms due to gaseous or volatile anesthetics].
abstract: To evaluate the air pollution in operating rooms when anesthesia is carried out with an open-circuit anesthesia delivery system, two analyzers were tested both in the laboratory and in an operating room. The TIF 5500, a laptop instrument, allows the detection of gas with low ionisation potential such as chloro-fluorocarbons (lower detection threshold: 3 ppm). The Bruel & Kjaer 1302 allows the simultaneous determination of the concentrations of the different inhalation anesthetics in the room by photoacoustic spectrometry. For this type of study, the latter proved an excellent instrument.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie analytique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Rennes.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boudeville
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beaussieu
mesh_terms: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000032:analysis*; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000032:analysis*; D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000295:instrumentation; D009873:Operating Rooms; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared / Q000295:instrumentation
chemical_list: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D000777:Anesthetics
vernacular_title: Techniques d'évaluation du taux de pollution des salles d'opération par les anesthésiques gazeux ou volatils.