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Wroclaw Hospital Safeguards Cytotoxic Drug Transport

NFC-enabled data loggers, isothermal containers help monitor and maintain temperature-sensitive drugs during transport for the Independent Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, Poland.

Aimed at killing cancer cells, cytotoxic drug medications used by the Independent Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, Poland must remain within a specific temperature range between the laboratory and transport within the care facility. Storage conditions are crucial to successfully transporting drugs or biological material, where even minor temperature variations can cause substances to deteriorate.

To maintain appropriate temperatures of patient medications, Wrocław’s Independent Clinical Public Hospital in Poland selected boxes with integrated temperature traceability. The units contain Near Field Communication data loggers to monitor cytotoxic drugs, which are effective at 2°C to 8°C. These NFC temperature data loggers are credit-card sized, autonomous and affordable, delivering a 0.2°C precision between 0°C and 30°C and 0.4°C on the rest of the range -30°C to +70°C.

The hospital works closely with one of laboratories of cytotoxic drugs that provide the medications. It uses NFC-connected boxes to avoid any misunderstandings and mistakes related to the right conditions during transport of the drugs form the lab to the hospital. This enables the lab to be transparent and assures the hospital's medical staff that the drugs are ready to be used and that the temperature was not breached. "

Blulog, a French-Polish firm based in Poznan, Poland, provides data loggers for isothermal boxes made by Georg UTZ, a developer of reusable plastic products such as containers, pallets and trays.

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