Open AccessPsychomotor Performance following Exposure to Trace Concentrations of Inhalation Anesthetics
Author(s) -
Alice F. Gambill,
Robert N. McCallum,
Theodore F. Henrichs
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/00000539-197911000-00007
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , medicine , inhalation , anesthesia , anesthetic , inhalation exposure , trace (psycholinguistics) , cognition , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy
Using three psychomotor tasks administered three times each at 2-week intervals, we studied the performances of 18 control subjects and 18 subjects who were routinely and daily exposed to trace concentrations of anesthetic gases in the course of their clinical practice. No significant differences attributable to exposure to trace concentrations of anesthetics were detected. It is concluded that laboratory studies may overestimate the degree of alteration of psychomotor skills associated with exposure to trace concentrations of inhalation anesthetics.