Looking For PPE Gowns

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Have your gowns been tested against Chemo Therapy Drugs? "ASTM standard D6978 is specific for testing gloves used with chemotherapeutic agents; no equivalent permeation test standard exists for protective gowns, which also are recommended by most guidelines when health care workers handle chemotherapy drugs. As a result, some gown manufacturers employ an approach similar to that used with gloves; they combine sections of standards F739 and D6978 and apply the parameters to gown permeability testing." In addition, most chemotherapy gloves are tested for use with the following drug concentrations per ASTMV D6978-05: Here are some of the examples, which gloves are tested against: The following drugs had NO breakthrough detected up to 240 minutes: Bleomycin sulfate (15 mg/nil) Gemcitabine HOI (38.0mg/mi) Busulfan (6 mg/mI) Idarubicin HCI (1.0mg/mI) Carboplatin (10 mg/mI) Ifosfamide (50.0 mg/mi) Cisplatin (1.0 mg/mI) lrinotecan HCI (20.0 mg/mI) Cyclophosphamide (20.0 mg/mI) Mechiorethamine HCI (1.0 mg/mI) Cytarabine HCI (100 mg/mI) Melphalan (5 mg/mI) Dacarbazine (10 mg/mI) Methotrexate (25 mg/mI) Daunorubicin HOI (5.0 mg/mI) Mitomycin-C (0.5 mg/mI) Docetaxel (10.0 mg/mI) Mitoxantrone (2.0 mg/mi) Doxorubicin HCI (2.0 mg/mI) Paclitaxel (6.0 mg/mI) Epirubicin (Ellence) (2 mg/mi) Rituximab (10 mg/mI) Etoposide (20.0 mg/mI) ThioTEPA (10.0 mg/mI) Fludarabine (25 mg/mI) Tisenox (0.1 mg/mI) Fluorouracil (50.0 mg/mi) Vincristine Sulfate (1.0 mg/mI) If anything causes a permeation it shows up like this: Please note that the following drug has low permeation times of less than 60 minutes: Carmustine (3.3 mg/mI) 30.7 minutes Although 111 different chemo drugs exist, they generally only test these.