{"title":"[Experiments for physiologic improvement of disinfectants].","authors":"C Beyer, K D Wozniak, K Höhne, R Laub","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of customary trade disinfectants lead to occupational disease no. 80 in many employers of public health. For that reason our aim is to improve the skin compatibility of this disinfectants. Its possible to achieve a pH-shift to a more physiological level eighter by buffer salt addition or by neutralization. Following this, disinfectants were investigated in a microbiological test.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"625-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13304332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Rapid glutamic acid decarboxylase test for identification of Escherichia coli].","authors":"J Fiedler, J R Eiske","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rapid, one-step glutamic acid decarboxylase test for the identification of Escherichia coli is described. The test gives a positive reaction (definite blue color) after 2 h to 3 h. Disturbing factors were explained. Microorganisms were cultured to Endo agar (SIFIN) supplemented with 1% meat peptone (Berlin-Chemie). For rapid liberation of the enzyme a combination of lytic agents NaCl and Triton X-100 were necessary. A total of 6,867 strains of Enterobacteriaceae of clinically isolates were parallely tested to activity of lactose, indole, citrate respectively biochemical tests with 15 reactions on the one side and activity of lactose and glutamic acid decarboxylase on the other side. 99.2% of the E. coli strains gave a positive reaction with glutamic acid decarboxylase. The rapid test selected E. coli with more reliability than the combination of the lactose, indole and citrate reactions. Expenditure of time and materials was fewer.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"620-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Dosimeter for detection of hydrogen fluoride].","authors":"D Kuchenbecker, H Schaffernicht","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The passive dosimeter for hydrogen fluoride monitoring consists of a plastic box with 40 holes of 1 mm in diameter in the front side containing a Na2CO3-impregnated filter paper as the collection medium. The sampling rate of this dosimeter is independent of the exposure dose and temperature but depends on the relative humidity. At 20% relative humidity the sampling rate is 1.69 l.h-1, however at 70% the sampling rate is 0.68 l.h-1. The dependence of the sampling rate on the relative humidity phi is expressed by the equation AR = - 0.0198.phi + 2.04.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"592-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Cataloging of data on physical stress: work difficulty at work sites in traffic].","authors":"H Blank, H Sprigade","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The catalogue presented here makes it possible to evaluate the physical load of an overall activity on the basis of separate activities specified according to sex. These data are based on measurements and can be used to obtain the index for the working place from the weighted arithmetic means. The catalogue is designed to aid transport enterprises to fulfil their obligations to supervise physical load according to the guidelines of occupational hygiene.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"607-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Evaluation of the biological exposure test \"CS2 in urine\"].","authors":"G Herrmann, W Leuschke, J Viehrig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The necessity of integration of biological exposure tests, for example the BET \"CS2 in urine\", is shown in connection with the activities of the works doctor in order to evaluate the individual health risk of the exposed workers. The possibilities on principle for the tests are discussed Topical biological threshold limit values for CS2 in urine on the base of validity studies are presented. In addition a special intervention regime.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"596-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Use of disinfectant solutions at a university clinic].","authors":"C Mühlhausen, H Lütz, E Schütz, S Korn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of complex checkups of the antimicrobial regimen the application of disinfecting solutions (Fesia-form, Kombinal asept, Wofasept, Fesia-pin, peracetic acid-spirit SR, and Wofasteril) was studied at 12 institutions of the clinical centre of the medical school of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from May 1986 to February 1988. It was the aim of the studies to show how properly the disinfecting solutions were applied and whether their concentrations was correct. Despite several discussions and intensive instruction at the workplace the criticized institutions showed positive changes, clearly but not yet satisfactorily, only after the third follow-up inspection. Our results demonstrate a wide gap between theoretical knowledge and application in practice. Possible reasons for that and ways for improvement of the objective and subjective components leading to an incorrect application of disinfectants are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"622-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Electrophysiologic criteria for the prevention of electric accidents].","authors":"J Kupfer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>About 0.25 percent of all registered industrial accidents are caused by electric current. One in 20 of these accidents has been fatal. The consequences of electric flow are determined by several factors, above all voltage, time and path of flow, type of current, and resistors within the power circuit. These are attributable to physiological criteria of conduction. Slight electric shock and death by ventricular fibrillation are close to each other by the all-or-nothing law. Conclusions are suggested for practice, and a discussion is proposed with a view to find an adequate definition of the power-related accident.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"586-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Reactions of German medical intelligentsia to World War I].","authors":"I Kästner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Starting from the ideological position of physicians before the first world war it is shown that the majority of physicians accepted this war and that pacifists among them belonged to a minority, which, however, relentlessly unmasked the culture-destroying effect of war and stood up against the preparations for a new war after the suppression of the november revolution. Furthermore it is referred to the motives for the undiscriminating acceptance and support of fascist ideology by the majority of German physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"626-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Occupational medicine analysis and evaluation of spinal load in the mining process].","authors":"E Gericke, B Döhler, R Schettler, K Friedrich","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The calculations of the spinal column loading of miners are based on working time studies in operations with predominantly physical heavy work and elevated mechanical load. An elaborated model for the mining of ores, the applicability to underground workers and the comparability of loading quantities, based on the dosage measurement, are described.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"599-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Results of audiometry screening in adolescent workers].","authors":"B Hartmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Results of screening audiometry of male youths aged 16 to 25 (n = 3969) in occupations from metallurgy, machine-building industry and traffic are demonstrated. Part of persons they have hearing loss between 5 to 10 percent increases from 2.8% of pupils before starting vocational training to 4.5% or 7.1% of apprentices and 9.7% of skilled workers. The incidence of persons with respective without middle ear inflammation in anamnesis only differ in stages about 20 percent hearing loss. It shows sensitivity of screening audiometry nevertheless there are possibilities of mistakes. Adolescents already may show measurable hearing loss in connection with professional and nonprofessional expositions as well as individual dispositions.</p>","PeriodicalId":76839,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"36 11","pages":"602-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13240188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}