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Drug Wastage : Observational Study in the Operating Rooms of France

NCT05609864 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3763

Last updated 2026-04-13

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Summary

Environmental awareness is leading medical field to question its responsibility and possibilities for action.

Drug residues can have a major environmental impact as per their bioaccumulation, toxicity and persistence characteristics, depending on where they are discarded. In France, drug residues should be disposed of by incineration, but in practice this is not systematic. Moreover, data on drug wastage in the operating rooms by anesthesia department are rare.

The GAME-OvBLOC observational study aim to evaluate drug wastage in the operating rooms by anesthesia department in France and to propose ways of improving health care practices.

Conditions

  • Drug Use

Interventions

OTHER

Quantification of injectable drugs wastage

Drugs are prescribed at discretion of physicians. For each patient who have anesthesia in the operating room, all labelled syringes having contained drugs (name + dilution) are collected and analyzed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sainte-Anne Military Teaching Hospital

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erwan D'Aranda, MD · Sainte-Anne Military Teaching Hospital (Hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte Anne)

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-06
Primary Completion
2023-07-20
Completion
2023-07-20

Countries

  • France
  • Guadeloupe
  • Mayotte
  • Monaco

Study Locations

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