Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations

The information related to health risks to foetuses due to the handling of chemotherapeutic agents by nurses during pregnancy is limited. The risks involved can be reduced significantly if nurses adhere to standard safety precautions while handling cytotoxic drugs. Nurses in patient areas where chem...

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Autores principales: Gilani, S, Giridharan, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3990661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24761159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2014.418
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description The information related to health risks to foetuses due to the handling of chemotherapeutic agents by nurses during pregnancy is limited. The risks involved can be reduced significantly if nurses adhere to standard safety precautions while handling cytotoxic drugs. Nurses in patient areas where chemotherapy is administered are at constant low-level risk of exposure. The authors tried to gather evidence in this article from the recent literature to help to formalise policies for pregnant mothers working in these settings.
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spelling pubmed-39906612014-04-23 Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations Gilani, S Giridharan, S Ecancermedicalscience Review The information related to health risks to foetuses due to the handling of chemotherapeutic agents by nurses during pregnancy is limited. The risks involved can be reduced significantly if nurses adhere to standard safety precautions while handling cytotoxic drugs. Nurses in patient areas where chemotherapy is administered are at constant low-level risk of exposure. The authors tried to gather evidence in this article from the recent literature to help to formalise policies for pregnant mothers working in these settings. Cancer Intelligence 2014-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3990661/ /pubmed/24761159 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2014.418 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations
title_fullStr Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations
title_full_unstemmed Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations
title_short Is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? A review of the literature and recommendations
title_sort is it safe for pregnant health-care professionals to handle cytotoxic drugs? a review of the literature and recommendations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3990661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24761159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2014.418
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