Abstract
Nurses are the largest discipline in the healthcare workforce, accounting for 59% of the healthcare professionals and approximately 4 million strong in the United States alone.1 Patients come to hospitals for nursing care, and nurses are undoubtedly the most precious resource of hospitals and healthcare. However, for the estimated 60,000 nurses in the perianesthesia setting, there is an invisible hazardous occupational exposure that occurs every day in the Post Anesthesia Care Units. This hazard is exposure to waste anesthetic gases (WAGs) that the immediate post procedure general anesthetic patient exhales (95% unmetabolized) into the nurses breathing zones as they are delivering patient care.
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