Journal of Clinical Toxicology
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Pierre Brochu

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• Research Article
  Ventilation Rates during the Aggregate Daytime Activities of Working Females in Hospitals: Data before their Pregnancy and at their 9th, 22nd and 36th Week of Gestation
  Author(s): Pierre Brochu and Angel Facetti Socol Pierre Brochu and Angel Facetti Socol
  
  Working females in hospitals may inhale pharmaceutical agents, chirurgical smokes, organic solvents, bacteria and/or viruses. These inhaled agents may generate adverse effects in gravid females, their embryo or fetus. Therefore, minute ventilation rates (VE) during the aggregate daytime activities of under (n=68), normal (n=268), overweight (n=42), obese class 1 (n=68) and classes 2-3 (n=51) females working in hospitals were determined before and during their pregnancy using published measurements of energy expenditures. For comparison purposes, VE values were also calculated for the same females at rest. Activity energy expenditures were based on disappearance rates of oral doses of water isotopes (i.e. 2H2O, H2 18O) monitored in urine samples of free-living hospital workers during 175 days by gas-isotope-ratio mass spectrometry. Bas.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0495.1000306

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