Women who work in operating rooms have an increased risk of spontaneous abortion and there appears to be a correlation in the incidence of miscarriage and operating room exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy (Euromed 1972, Cohen, Bellville and Brown 1971, .American Society of Anesthesiologists 1974). It is well known that spontaneous abortions in the general population represent a fetal wastage (Potter and Adair 1963). The Geneva Conference
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