TY - JOUR
T1 - Risks and health effects in operating room personnel
AU - van den Berg-Dijkmeijer, Marleen L.
AU - Frings-Dresen, Monique H. W.
AU - Sluiter, Judith K.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The objective was to find the factors that pose a possible health risk to OR personnel. Work-related health problems of operating room (OR) personnel were signalled by an occupational physician and preparations for the development of new Worker's Health Surveillance (WHS) were started with a systematic review of the literature. A systematic review was performed of articles in Pubmed, published from January 1991 to December 2007, concerning risks or health effects in the working conditions of OR personnel. Twenty-three articles reported that workers in the OR are exposed to infectious agents, noise, anaesthetic gases and radiation. Eleven studies reported elevated risk for (allergic) skin diseases, musculoskeletal complaints and infectious diseases. Factors that form a health risk for workers in the operating room are infectious agents, noise, anaesthetic gases and radiation. Health effects on workers in the OR are (allergic) skin disorders, musculoskeletal complaints and infectious diseases
AB - The objective was to find the factors that pose a possible health risk to OR personnel. Work-related health problems of operating room (OR) personnel were signalled by an occupational physician and preparations for the development of new Worker's Health Surveillance (WHS) were started with a systematic review of the literature. A systematic review was performed of articles in Pubmed, published from January 1991 to December 2007, concerning risks or health effects in the working conditions of OR personnel. Twenty-three articles reported that workers in the OR are exposed to infectious agents, noise, anaesthetic gases and radiation. Eleven studies reported elevated risk for (allergic) skin diseases, musculoskeletal complaints and infectious diseases. Factors that form a health risk for workers in the operating room are infectious agents, noise, anaesthetic gases and radiation. Health effects on workers in the OR are (allergic) skin disorders, musculoskeletal complaints and infectious diseases
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-2011-1181
DO - https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-2011-1181
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21709369
SN - 1051-9815
VL - 39
SP - 331
EP - 344
JO - Work (Reading, Mass.)
JF - Work (Reading, Mass.)
IS - 3
ER -