Surgical Smoke (diathermy smoke)

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pikachus		#1 Posted : 23 March 2010 15:59:59(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		I was wondering if anyone has any information regarding the above - whether it be in the form of known hazards (specifically in relation to asthma) or coshh risk assessment - i have found some information from the AfPP but am struggling to find out more information - i am looking at ensuring all relevant control measures have been implemented.. any help would be gratefully received


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IanBlenkharn		#2 Posted : 23 March 2010 17:42:26(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		The medical literature has much information on the subject. You will be able to find this using the bibliographic search systems though if you do not have institutional access you may have to pay for access to individual publication sources.


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martinw		#3 Posted : 23 March 2010 19:25:02(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		pikachus have a look at the following for starters http://www.bohs.org/reso...e/529/Surgical_smoke.pdf and for instance the companies 3m and Eschmann manufacture diathermy machines so if you look on their sites you may find some useful information.


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stephendclarke		#4 Posted : 23 March 2010 19:32:01(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		Hi, You could also try the following - there's quite a lot of open access medical research freely available on line: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih..../PMC1964566/?tool=pubmed http://www3.interscience...ct?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://download.journals...PIIS0001209207004437.pdf http://download.journals...PIIS000120920700693X.pdf Cheers Steve


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