Surface Contamination by Antineoplastic Drugs in Two Oncology Inpatient Units
| Autor: | Jean-François Delisle, Delphine Hilliquin, Jean-François Bussières, Marie Palamini, Audrey Chouinard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
environmental surveillance RM1-950 Pharmacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Inpatient units medicine trace contamination Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Pharmaceutical industry Pharmacology business.industry Environmental surveillance Hazardous drugs occupational exposure Contamination 030210 environmental & occupational health Emergency medicine Antineoplastic Drugs Therapeutics. Pharmacology Occupational exposure HD9665-9675 hazardous drugs business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Pharmaceutical Technology in Hospital Pharmacy, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 79-6 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2365-242X 2365-2411 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/pthp-2019-0017 |
| Popis: | BackgroundHazardous drugs pose risks to health care workers. To reduce the risk of occupational exposure for all workers, several protective and monitoring measures have been recommended and implemented over the past two decades. This study was undertaken to describe traces contamination with ten antineoplastic drugs in the oncology care unit of two university hospitals.MethodsIn this descriptive interrupted time series study, data was collected in two hospitals (a pediatric hospital and an adult hospital) in two consecutive years (12 December 2017 and 27 March 2018, defined as Period 1; 17 April 2019 and 12 June 2019, defined as Period 2). In both Period 1 and Period 2, 36 sites were sampled in each inpatient care unit to explore the contamination of surfaces with hazardous drugs.ResultsA total of 144 samples from the oncology care unit of the two hospitals were obtained for measurement. Overall, 40 % (58/144) of the sampling sites were positive for at least one hazardous drug. In the pediatric centre, 50 % (18/36) and 36 % (13/36) of the sites sampled in Period 1 and Period 2, respectively, were positive for at least one hazardous drug, whereas in the adult hospital, the percentage of sites that were positive for at least one hazardous drug was 19 % (7/36) in Period 1 and 56 % (20/36) in Period 2.ConclusionThe surfaces of inpatient care units sampled in this study were contaminated with antineoplastic drugs, and contamination was present throughout the care units (including structures, furniture, medical equipment, and office equipment). Hospitals’ environmental surveillance programs should encompass inpatient care units. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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