ArticleAfrican journal of thoracic and critical care medicine2025
Evaluation of spirometric lung function among healthcare professionals working in operating theatres: A comparative cross‑sectional study.
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- Spotlight on lung health in operating theatre staff.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Inhalational exposures in the operating theatre, such as waste anaesthetic gases, surgical smoke, airborne particles, microbiological contaminants and cleaning agents, may compromise lung function. Objectives: To evaluate pulmonary function test (PFT) values of operating theatre staff who work in resource-constrained settings. Methods: This comparative cross-sectional study included 184 participants (exposed and matched unexposed cohorts). Data were acquired via a structured questionnaire, and the standard procedure was used to calculate each participant's forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV Results: The study cohort comprised 38 surgeons, 28 anaesthetists, 14 scrub nurses and 12 assistants, with a median age of 34 years. The median age for the matched unexposed cohort was 33 years. The healthcare staff had significantly lower FEV Conclusion: The study showed that PFT values were considerably lower among operating theatre healthcare staff than in a matched unexposed group, with measures decreasing as staff experience/duration of exposure rose. Study synopsis:
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