The effect of operating theatre work on peripheral blood T- and B-lymphocytes was studied by the rosette method. There was no statistically significant difference between operating theatre personnel and the controls in the number of T- and B-lymphocytes. This study supports the view that work in operating theatres does not cause changes in the immune response.
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Microorganisms
January 2025
Division of Anaesthesiology Nursing & Intensive Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-211 Gdansk, Poland.
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Department of Gynecology, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, No. 212 Yuhua East Road, Lianchi District, Baoding City, 071000, China.
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Zentralbl Chir
January 2025
Universitätsklinik für Chirurgie, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg, Österreich.
The aim of this work is to investigate the ergonomic load on the surgical team during open, laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgical procedures.Employees of the Salzburg State Hospitals (SALK) were invited to take part in a standardised online survey in December 2023. The extent and differences in psychophysical stress for the individual professional groups and specialists were examined for different surgical procedures.
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Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany; Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Germany. Electronic address:
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