Short Communication - Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation (2022) Volume 6, Issue 4

Impact on evaluation of the environmental contamination and exposure risk in healthcare people.

Pressurized intraperitoneal airborne chemotherapy (PIPAC) may be a technique to straightforwardly convey chemotherapeutic drugs within the midriff for the treatment of peritoneal metastases. Pressurization makes strides the treatment viability but increments the chance of presentation for the medical/non-medical staff who can be uncovered by dermal or visual contact, or inward breath of aerosols containing the cytotoxic drugs. The point of this think about was to assess the chance of presentation for the medical/non-medical staff (medical attendants, specialists, anaesthesiologists and cleaning work force; n=13) amid PIPAC with oxaliplatin performed agreeing to the convention prescribed in France.

Author(s): Marion Jarlior*

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