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Exposure of surgeons to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields during laparoscopic and robotic surgeries

Auteur     Jee Soo Park
Auteur     Jai Won Chung
Auteur     Nam Kyu Kim
Auteur     Min Soo Cho
Auteur     Chang Moo Kang
Auteur     Soo Beom Choi
Auteur     Deok Won Kim
Volume     94
Numéro     6
Pages     e539
Publication     Medicine
ISSN     1536-5964
Date     Feb 2015
Résumé     The development of new medical electronic devices and equipment has increased the use of electrical apparatuses in surgery. Many studies have reported the association of long-term exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs) with diseases or cancer. Robotic surgery has emerged as an alternative tool to overcome the disadvantages of conventional laparoscopic surgery. However, there has been no report regarding how much ELF-MF surgeons are exposed to during laparoscopic and robotic surgeries. In this observational study, we aimed to measure and compare the ELF-MFs that surgeons are exposed to during laparoscopic and robotic surgery.The intensities of the ELF-MFs surgeons are exposed to were measured every 4 seconds for 20 cases of laparoscopic surgery and 20 cases of robotic surgery using portable ELF-MF measuring devices with logging capability.The mean ELF-MF exposures were 0.6 ± 0.1 mG for laparoscopic surgeries and 0.3 ± 0.0 mG for robotic surgeries (significantly lower with P < 0.001 by Mann-Whitney U test).Our results show that the ELF-MF exposure levels of surgeons in both robotic and conventional laparoscopic surgery were lower than 2 mG, which is the most stringent level considered safe in many studies. However, we should not overlook the effects of long-term ELF-MF exposure during many surgeries in the course of a surgeon’s career.

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doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000000539

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