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David L. Bruce
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 41
Citations - 1344
David L. Bruce is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Halothane & Anesthetic. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1330 citations.
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Trace Anesthetic Effects on Perceptual, Cognitive, and Motor Skills
TL;DR: There was a significant decrement in performance following anesthetic exposure on a task of divided attention between auditory and visual signals, a visual tachistoscopic test, and memory tests involving digit span and recall of word pairs.
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Causes of death among anesthesiologists: a 20-year survey.
TL;DR: Anesthesiologists appear to have a low incidence of lung cancer, a somewhat lower than average incidence of coronary artery disease in recent years, and a high death rate from suicide and malignancies of the lymphoid and reticuloendothelial tissues.
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A survey of anesthetic health hazards among dentists
Ellis N. Cohen,Byron W. Brown,David L. Bruce,Helmut F. Cascorbi,Thomas H. Corbett,Thomas W. Jones,Charles E. Whitcher +6 more
TL;DR: In the comparison of the health of individuals exposed or unexposed to inhalation anesthetics, there was a significant increase (78%) of spontaneous abortion in the spouses of exposed dentists and a significant rise (156%) in liver disease for exposed Dentists.
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Psychological studies of human performance as affected by traces of enflurane and nitrous oxide.
David L. Bruce,Mary Jean Bach +1 more
TL;DR: Performance of a divided-attention audiovisual task and a digit-span memory test were significantly decreased compared with control data following exposure to air.