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Document ID (ISN)40353
CIS number 83-1464
ISSN - Serial title 0303-7657 - Revista brasileira de saúde ocupacional
Year 1981
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Dos Reis Caixeta Braga W.
Title Control and prevention of lead poisoning
Original title Controle e prevenção do saturnismo [in Portuguese]
Bibliographic information Oct.-Dec. 1981, Vol.9, No.36, p.11-15. Illus. 34 ref.
Abstract Medical examination of 266 patenting-shop workers in a Brazilian wire drawing plant revealed 90 cases of chronic lead poisoning of different degrees. These cases could have been prevented by engineering measures designed to reduce the amount of lead stripped off the patented wire and to control the dust at the reels. The clinical symptoms for diagnosis of lead poisoning are detailed, and complementary examinations (determination of urinary coproporphyrin, urinary ALA, complete haemogramme with reticulocyte count and evidence of erythrocyte stippling, biochemical blood analysis) are dealt with. Comments on the diminution of lead poisoning cases in this plant during the past 5 years owing to medical prevention.
Descriptors (primary) lead; wire drawing; medical prevention; chronic poisoning; health engineering
Descriptors (secondary) dust control; exposure tests; patenting
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Medicine, hygiene and first aid
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Lead and compounds
Inorganic substances