NCT05609864

Drug Wastage : Observational Study in the Operating Rooms of France

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,763 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

Observational study with data collection over a 24-hour business day. Data collected refer to healthcare team's practices and patients.

Conditions

• Drug Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-06
• Primary completion: 2023-07-20
• Completion: 2023-07-20
• First posted: 2022-11-08
• Last updated: 2026-04-13

Locations

83 sites across 4 countries: France, Guadeloupe, Mayotte, Monaco