Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 98-0048-2688: The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Decker, John A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from Denver's Children's Hospital management, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted an industrial hygiene evaluation of health care worker's exposures to aerosolized ribavirin. Rivabirin is a synthetic nucleoside that is used to prevent and treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in infants and children. The specific request was for NIOSH to evaluate exposures to ribavirin and determine if N-95 disposable respirators should be used to provide supplemental protection against exposure to the drug. At Children's Hospital, ribavirin is frequently administered through the Airlife face mask enclosed by an aerosol scavenging system (a NOVA Tenthouse cube attached to the hospital's suction system).
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Hospitals Occupational Health Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  1-beta-D-ribofuranosyl- 1,2,4-triazole-3-carboximide Aerosol Containment System Aerosolized Drugs Aerosolized Pharmaceuticals Air-sampling Exposures General Medical And Surgical Hospitals Hazard-Unconfirmed Health-hazard-evaluation Health Care Workers Industrial-hygiene Nucleosides OSHA Region 8 Respirators Ribavirin Ribavivrin Virazole

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9800482688
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Daniels, William ; Lovell, Patricia
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000027
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-149254
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 98-0048-2688, 1998 Apr ; :1-26
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ribavirin (CAS RN 36791-04-5)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8062 - General medical & surgical hospitals - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cc98ca7eab6d406b199595ea5bfe79f2e00e6d039bf3c7aa47b0443e072c37fb1268b095f7deffcb136fd82d03eb07878d72c8a9861fdb8f1d9d3ebb21bf4fb7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171056/cdc_171056_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 192.73 KB ]