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Industry: Email Alert RSS Feed20 years ago in the AORN Journal
AORN Journal, July, 2004
An author calls ketamine one of the most fascinating anesthetic agents to come along in the past 30 years. Its main drawback is the high incidence of emergence psychosis in the form of frightening dreams. * "Legislation" reports new Environmental Protection Agency precautions for the use of ethylene oxide.
Hospitals will have to install equipment designed to reduce worker exposure to this chemical. * An author discusses how the population demographic factors of increased fertility, steady migration, and decreased mortality will affect perioperative nursing in the future. * The Journal reports that the rate of ectopic pregnancies increased dramatically between 1970 and 1980.
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