Sources of Mercury
Surgery Room

 
1. Equipment Containing Mercury used in
Treatment/Surgery Rooms
 
2. Mercury Products used in
Treatment/Surgery Rooms


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1. Equipment Containing Mercury used in Treatment/Surgery Rooms

Equipment

Use

Batteries
Mercuric Oxide
Hearing Aids
Pacemakers
Defibrillators
Fetal Monitors
Hofler Monitor
Thermometers Temperature Measurement
Sphgymomanometers Blood Pressure
Esophageal Dilators
Cantor Tubes
Miller Abbot Tubes
Feeding Tubes
Hg is used as weight at the bottom of the tubes
Lamps Fluorescent Lamps
Metal Halide Lamps
High Pressure Sodium Lamps
Ultraviolet Lamps
Cathode Ray tubes

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2. Mercury Products used in Treatment/Surgery Rooms

Medicine Use Product Mercury
Antifungal/Anti-Infectious
/Bacteriostatic Enzyme
/Ammonia
Merthiolate
Mercury Nitrate
Mercury Iodide
Thimerosal
(26% of Hg)
Antibacterial Agent Mercurochrome

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