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How to protect healthcare workers from hazardous drugs

August 24, 2016

Surface wipe sampling is an important component of a comprehensive drug-safety program to identify where skin exposure to hazardous drugs could occur in healthcare settings. All drugs carry risks, as well as benefits, as the patient warnings listed on the accompanying inserts indicate. One class of drugs with especially serious risks are anticancer drugs, which can be associated with organ damage, reproductive harm, hearing impairment, and cancer.

Calif. passes bill to protect health care workers from toxic drugs

Chemotherapy drug handling linked to higher cancer risk

November 6, 2013

Starting January 1, 2014, health care workers in California will have new protections in the form of legislation that establishes workplace safety practices for the safe handling of chemotherapy drugs.

Drugs used to treat patients can harm health care workers

Caring for sick is a "high-hazard" occupation

April 18, 2013

Approximately eight million U.S. health care workers are year are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs used to treat patients. “It seems counter-intuitive that the health care industry, whose mission is the care of the sick, is itself a "high-hazard" industry for the workers it employs,” notes a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage on the subject.

Items Tagged with 'chemotherapy drugs'

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How to protect healthcare workers from hazardous drugs

Calif. passes bill to protect health care workers from toxic drugs

Drugs used to treat patients can harm health care workers

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