background & purpose: there are occupational hazards related to nitrous oxide (n2o) in hospitals operating and recovery rooms. these hazards include the decrease of mental performance and audio-visual ability, and reduced fertility, spontaneous abortion and neurological, renal and liver diseases. in this survey, the concentration of nitrous oxide in indoor air of hospitals operating and recover...

background: stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. in this study, we aimed to investigate the level of occupational stress in operating room staffs working in the hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sci...

results higher levels of stress were due to the fear of being infected by hiv and hepatitis patients with mean of 3.2 and 58%; and lack of weekends with mean of 3 and 44%. the lowest levels of stress were related to inadequate skills with mean of 2.18 and 32%, and environment light with mean of 2.14 and 34.7%. stress was significantly related to job status, conflict of doctors and nurses as wel...

This paper investigates the impact of allowing patient recovery in the operating room when no recovery bed is available. Three types of identical resources are considered : transporters, operating rooms and recovery beds. A fixed number of patients must be planned over a term horizon, usually one or two weeks. The surgery process is modelled as follows : each patient is transported from the war...

background: nitrous oxide (n 2 o) is the oldest anesthetic in routine clinical use and its occupational exposure is under regulation by many countries. as studies are lacking to demonstrate the status of nitrous oxide levels in operating and recovery rooms of iranian hospitals, we aimed to study its level in teaching hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. methods: during a 6-month ...