TY - GEN AU - Nesreen Essam_Eldin Abd El Salam Elserwy AU - Hassan Mohamed Ahmed , AU - Mohamed Amr Matar , AU - Rasha Ahmed Arafa , TI - Safety precautions in the operating room / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Nesreen Essam_Eldin Abd El Salam Elserwy , KW - Macroshock KW - Operating Room KW - Safety Precautions N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Anaesthesia; Issued also as CD N2 - Precautions in operating room include many subjects among which precautions against electrical hazardsThe most important electrical hazards are macroshock which refers to the effects of current applied to the body through contact skin , it leads to disrupting physiologic functions in the form of muscle contraction , apnea , ventricular fibrillation and thermal injuryThe severity of macroshock depends on the amount of current , duration of contact and skin resistanceVentricular fibrillation threshold ranges between ER -