It was a dark and stormy operating room. A colorless, odorless gas crept along the floor and wrapped itself around doctors, nurses and technicians. It worked its way into their lungs and on into their blood. Eventually, all lay sick or dying – but not if the hospital was doing proper trace gas analysis! Read the facinating details in this issue’s tale of horror and heroes.
Does this sound like something out of the 1958 Steve McQueen classic, “The Blob,” or longtime cult favorite, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”? It isn’t. This creeping, covert culprit that escapes detection by the human eye, ear and sometimes, nose, is trace gas, an invisible footprint left behind in operating suites, pathology labs, sterilizing areas — even dental offices.
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