| A Study on the Effect of Waste Anestheic Gases on the Sister Chromatid Exchanges of Peripheral Lymphocytes in Operating Room Personnel. |
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Young Seok Choi, Hak Sik Kim, Keon Kang |
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Department of Anesthesiology, Hae Sung General Hospital, Ulsan, Korea. |
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The authors examined the induntivity of sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) in peripheral lum-phocytes on the personnel working in the operating room and analyzed the factors associated with it to obtain data for their monitoring health status. The results obtained were as follows; 1) Average inductivity of SCE in peripheral lymphocytes of operating room perssonnel exposed to anesthetic gases was 7.85 per cell; it was significantly higher than in those who were not exposed (p< 0.05). 2) The inductivity of SCE in peripheral lymphocytes by age group and exposure duration was not statically significant (p<0.05). 3) The inductivity of SCE in the subjects with a smoking habit was significantly higher than those without a smoking habit (p<0.05). 4) There was no significant difference in the inductivity of SCE between the subjects with a drinking habit and those without it (p>0.05). 5) It is possible that the high inductivity of SCE in operating room personnel who both with drink and smoke was due to more the influence of their smoking than their drinking. |
| Key Words:
Sister chromatid exchange; Anesthetic gases; Smoking |
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