[Pharmwaste] Medical Surveillance for work exposure to hazardous drugs

[Suhr, Marcus W.]

I'm doing research on Hospital organizations that perform medical surveillance on staff (i.e. nursing, pharmacists, waste handlers etc.) that are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs (i.e. chemo)as part of their job function.  Many articles and guidelines from different professional organizations support medical surveillance (i.e. NIOSH, ASHP, OSHA Technical Manual).  

The questions that I am interested in are:

	1) Facility Name/Location
	2) Contact Person knowledgeable about the surveillance
	3) Types of surveillance: (i.e. pre-employment, baseline, annual, 		acute exposure etc.
	4) Testing included in surveillance: (i.e. CBC, Metabolic, urinalysis)
	5) What indicators for each type of test do you compare against
	6) If you have a program, why.  
	7) If you don't, why not?

Marcus Suhr, CSP 
Occupational Safety Specialist
Christiana Care Health Services 
Occupational Safety Department, Office L840J 
4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road 
Newark, DE 19718 
302-733-3787 (office)
302-824-1695 (cell)
302-573-7662 (pager) 
302-733-3771 (fax) 
MSuhr at christianacare.org
	Alle Ding' sind Gift, und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist. 
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