Ando Wataru, Imamura Yumika, Nagashima Hideyuki, Kondo Kouji, Nakamura Kazunori, Otori Katsuya
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Center for Pharmacy Practice and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8641, Japan.
Department of Pharmacy, Kitasato University Medical Center, 6-100 Arai, Kitamoto, 364-8501, Saitama, Japan.
BMC Res Notes. 2020 Mar 16;13(1):158. doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-05014-4.
After the large-scale earthquake in 2011, the disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) was made responsible for medical activities during the hyperacute phase of a disaster or accident in Japan. The medicines to be administered at the disaster sites, packaged in medical bags, may be affected by the temperatures there. This study aimed at establishing a method to handle drug bags in high-temperature situations by determining the temperature changes in medical bags subject to high temperatures and examining the effect of opening the bag and using heat-insulating material (HIM) and coolants.
Closed and semi-opened bags limited the temperature increase in the central part of the bag at both 35 and 40 °C to a greater extent than opened bags. When coolant and HIM were used in closed and semi-opened bags, the internal temperatures were significantly lower than in the opened state at 40 °C. In high-temperature disaster sites, medical bags should be maintained in a semi-opened or closed state using a HIM and coolant.
2011年大规模地震后,灾害医疗援助队(DMAT)负责日本灾害或事故超急性期的医疗活动。装在医疗袋中的、要在灾害现场使用的药品可能会受到现场温度的影响。本研究旨在通过测定高温下医疗袋内的温度变化,并研究打开袋子、使用隔热材料(HIM)和冷却剂的效果,建立在高温情况下处理药袋的方法。
在35℃和40℃时,封闭和半开的袋子比打开的袋子更能限制袋中央部分的温度升高。当在封闭和半开的袋子中使用冷却剂和HIM时,40℃时的内部温度明显低于打开状态。在高温灾害现场,医疗袋应使用HIM和冷却剂保持在半开或封闭状态。