Anaesthesia for Laser
Surgery
You might like to start with my page
on Laser
Surgery and Anaesthesia.
There's lots of stuff not only about laser surgery and its
anaesthetic implications but also about the physics of
lasers themselves. For a more detailed approach to laser
physics and optics you might like to see Laser
Fundamentals by Robert
Aldrich. How
Stuff Works has a page about
How
Lasers Work written by Matthew
Weschler and The
"Laser Adventure " by Rami
Arieli offers similar general laser information.
The Department of Paediatric
Anaesthesia of the Women's & Children's Hospital South
Australia has a brief set of guidelines relating to
paediatric
laser airway surgery.
Laser Safety
The University College London
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering has a
very neat Introduction
to Laser Safety. Definitely
worth a look before you go blind! Here you'll find the
10
Golden Rules of laser safety,
a list of 10 important "do's and don'ts" to bear in mind
when working with lasers, and several Laser
hazard data sheets listing
specific risks associated with particular lasers.
Laser
Safety and the Eye - Hidden Hazards and Practical
Pearls by Osama Bader and
Harvey Lui from the Lions Laser Skin Centre Division of
Dermatology, Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences
Centre, and University of British Columbia is a superb paper
on the specifics of eye safety. It covers absolutely
everything (that I can think of anyway!).
The U.S. Army has several relevent
laser safety pages as part of their Center
for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine's Laser/Optical
Radiation Program. The
Air
Force has a similar page but
the Navy keep moving theirs so I won't link it
anymore.
The U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
has a page on laser
hazards with a very extensive
list of laser safety related web resources. Well worth a
look.
The following universities all have
pages about laser safety...
Rockwell Laser Industries, Inc. has an
extensive set of Laser
& Laser Safety Related Resources
on their LaserNet server.
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