Originally Posted by meenah
I have asked around but I get 2 stories. I know I cant be in the OR but is it ok when the OR door is open and the recovery as well? I can sometimes smell the chemicals off the patients. Please I need advise. I will ask my MD on MOn but really am curious now.
Should be fine. We hav pregnant nurses in our PACU all the time, and we have pregnant CRNAs who are in the operating room all the time. The only thing to be careful of is fluoroscopy, x-ray, and any OR cases where they are using methylmethacrylate (bone cement). I know you may smell some of the anesthetic gases the patient is breathing out, but by the time they get to the PACU, the amount they have left in their body in small, and poses little threat.
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