| Grant number: | 13/05084-8 |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| Start date: | July 01, 2013 |
| End date: | December 31, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Medicine - Surgery |
| Principal Investigator: | Leandro Gobbo Braz |
| Grantee: | Leandro Gobbo Braz |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Medicina (FMB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil |
| City of the host institution: | Botucatu |
| Associated researchers: | Mariana Gobbo Braz |
Abstract
The human monitoring has been used as a useful tool to identify and quantify the risk related to harmful effects in health. There is a few data in Brazil regarding the monitoring of occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gases, without national data of waste anesthetic gases determined in operating room (OR). This proposal aims to determine the concentrations of waste anesthetic gases in the OR and evaluate DNA damage in exposed medical personnel. The study will be performed in the OR of the Hospital of Botucatu Medical School - UNESP and in 60 subjects: 30 anesthesiologists exposure to waste anesthetic gases and 30 physicians without occupational exposure, matched by age, gender and lifestyle. The concentrations of isoflurane, sevoflurane, desflurane and nitrous oxide (waste anesthetic gases) will be determined in the OR using a portable infrared spectrophotometer. Venous blood samples and buccal cells will be collected from all professionals. DNA damage evaluated in lymphocytes will be detected by comet assay and chromosomal damage by buccal micronucleus cytome assay. Taken together, data of the values of waste anesthetic gases in OR and their possible effects on genetic material will be assessed in anesthesiologists. This knowledge will certainly contribute to future preventive actions, adequating the concentrations of waste anesthetic gases to international standards and reducing the possible damage into the exposed professionals, with direct impact on public health. (AU)
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