https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/20174/fluosorbers-and-pregnancy Hi. Im 6weeks pregnant and have told my employer. We have done a risk assessment and I have expressed my concerns regarding monitoring anaesthetics as we have fluosorbers for our scavenging system, we have no active scavenging. Im quite happy to monitoren-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/138758?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:35:46 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:e56830bf-c213-4f9b-b24f-1647331eccfcbongo<p>No nitrous because soda lime cant absorb. &nbsp;Also be wary when recovering animals, they can breathe out some volatile still. &nbsp;I always had to wonder at my old practice why some nurses would never monitor anaesthetics but happily recover them post op. &nbsp;To me that is worse because they have no cuffed tube in!</p> <p>Oh yeah, congrats on the preganancy!<img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/138743?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:09:13 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:5ba86cb2-323d-4d87-9a1b-176da2418d1eF1chick<p>Check them regularly, get someone else to weigh them and change them and remember they don&#39;t absorb n20</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>