Health effects among refrigeration repair workers exposed to fluorocarbons.

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Title Health effects among refrigeration repair workers exposed to fluorocarbons.
Publication Type thesis
School or College School of Medicine
Department Family & Preventive Medicine
Author Campbell, David Douglas.
Date 1983-12
Description Refrigeration repair workers may be intermittently exposed to fluorocarbons and their thermal decomposition products. An index case of peripheral neuropathy (distal axonopathy) in a commercial refrigeration repairman prompted an epidemiologic investigation of the health of refrigeration repair works. No additional cases of peripheral neuropathy were identified among the 27 refrigeration repair workers studied. A reference group of 14 non-refrigeration repair workers was also studied. No differences were noted between groups for the ulnar (motor and sensory), median (motor and sensory), peroneal, sural, or tribial nerve conduction velocities. Refrigeration repair workers reported palpitation and light-headiness significantly more often than did workers in the reference group. No clinical neurologic or electroneurophysiolocig abnormalities were detected among eight refrigeration repair workers followed for a three-year period during continuous employment.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Neuropathy; Refigeration; Physiology
Subject MESH Fluorocarbons; Physiology
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Health effects among refrigeration repair workers exposed to fluorocarbons." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Health effects among refrigeration repair workers exposed to fluorocarbons." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RA 4.5 1983 C34.
Rights Management © David Douglas Campbell.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,38
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
ID 192698
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s75wtg
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