Hazardous Drug Contamination of Drug Preparation Devices and Staff: A Contamination Study Simulating the Use of Chemotherapy Drugs in a Clinical Setting. [PDF]
Hosp Pharm, 2017 Background: Hazardous drug contamination (HD) in healthcare environments continues, placing healthcare staff at risk of significantly chronic health problems, despite the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and closed system transfer device systems (CSTDs).
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Effectiveness of a Closed-System Transfer Device in Reducing Surface Contamination in a New Antineoplastic Drug-Compounding Unit: A Prospective, Controlled, Parallel Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The objective of this randomized, prospective and controlled study was to investigate the ability of a closed-system transfer device (CSTD; BD-Phaseal) to reduce the occupational exposure of two isolators to 10 cytotoxic drugs and compare to standard ...
Nicolas Simon +12 more
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Thermal baths as sources of pharmaceutical and illicit drug contamination. [PDF]
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2020 Despite the fact that there are tens of thousands of thermal baths in existence, knowledge about the occurrence of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in untreated thermal wastewater is very limited.
Jakab G +11 more
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External contamination of antineoplastic drug vials: an occupational risk to consider [PDF]
European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy: Science and Practice, 2020 Risk management for workers involved in the handling and preparation of cytotoxic drugs is challenging. This study aims to investigate drug contamination of the exterior surfaces of cytotoxic drug vials.
Camille Cotteret +10 more
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Contamination of a drug consumption room with drugs and potential risks for social health care workers [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground Studies have shown that contamination of surfaces by illicit drugs frequently occurs in forensic laboratories when manipulating seized samples as well as in pharmacies and hospitals when preparing medicinal drugs.
Flore Cuffaro +8 more
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2022 Background. The contamination of raw milk depends on the number and type of organisms that can cause health risks, which can be judged by the presence of microorganisms and bacterial pathogens.
Alqeer Aliyo, Zelalem Teklemariam
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Drug Contamination from Opening Glass Ampules
Anesthesiology, 1991 Recently there have been several reports of postoperative sepsis due to the intravenous injection of contaminated solutions of propofol (Diprivan). The mechanism by which this contamination occurred has not been identified. This study sought to determine whether bacterial contamination of the contents of glass ampules can be decreased by swabbing the ...
A N, Zacher, M H, Zornow, G, Evans
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Illicit drug contamination of the Bristol pound local currency
Forensic Science International, 2020 Reports have shown the prevalence of the contamination of banknotes with a number of different drugs. These studies have focused on investigating drug contamination levels on currency which is either nationally or even international distributed. To present there has been no studies undertaken on banknotes circulating in well-defined and limited ...
Paul Bowdler +7 more
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Drug Contamination of Banknotes
Significance, 2005 Abstract When the police or Customs and Excise seize currency they are nowadays likely to have the confiscated banknotes tested for the presence of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis. It is an interesting statistic that there is a 99% chance that “the money in your pocket” will be contaminated with detectable amounts of cocaine ...
P. Laycock
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Side-by-Side Comparison of Methods for Environmental Monitoring for Hazardous Drug Contamination. [PDF]
Can J Hosp Pharm, 2023 Hon CY.
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