Eliot Kusnetz1, Marian Condon. 1. Occupational Medicine, Total Care Occupational Medicine, Somerset, New Jersey, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: While health risks from occupational exposure of nursing and pharmacy staff have been recognized, exposure of para-professional health care workers (HCW) has received little attention. METHODS: This case report describes a patient care assistant who developed allergic reactions subsequent to exposure to urine of oncology patients who had been treated with antineoplastics. RESULTS: The patient care assistant on two occasions developed a pruritic, disseminated rash shortly after emptying commodes containing the urine of oncology patients treated with Vincristine and Adriamycin (doxorubicin). CONCLUSIONS: Increased attention should be focused on the occupational exposures of para-professional HCWs to potentially hazardous antineoplastics. Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
BACKGROUND: While health risks from occupational exposure of nursing and pharmacy staff have been recognized, exposure of para-professional health care workers (HCW) has received little attention. METHODS: This case report describes a patient care assistant who developed allergic reactions subsequent to exposure to urine of oncology patients who had been treated with antineoplastics. RESULTS: The patient care assistant on two occasions developed a pruritic, disseminated rash shortly after emptying commodes containing the urine of oncology patients treated with Vincristine and Adriamycin (doxorubicin). CONCLUSIONS: Increased attention should be focused on the occupational exposures of para-professional HCWs to potentially hazardous antineoplastics. Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Authors: AnnMarie L Walton; Shawn Kneipp; Laura Linnan; Josephine Asafu-Adjei; Christian Douglas; Maija Leff; Bonnie Rogers Journal: Oncol Nurs Forum Date: 2019-11-01 Impact factor: 2.172