Effectiveness of Expressive Writing protocol in Palliative Care Healthworkers: a quantitative study.

Background And Aim Of The Work: Palliative Care professionals are exposed to intense emotional environment. This puts them at risk for Compassion Fatigue and Burnout. The protective factors that can counter their onset are Compassion Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Resilience.

Scalp Cooling in Daily Clinical Practice for Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Curative Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Interventional Study.

Objective: Chemotherapy-induced alopecia is a common and distressful side effect, especially among breast cancer patients. Scalp cooling (SC) can reduce hair loss during anthracycline- and taxane-based chemotherapy. This study assessed the effectiveness of SC in daily clinical practice in three Italian oncology units.

Qualification of high-recovery, flocked swabs as compared to traditional rayon swabs for microbiological environmental monitoring of surfaces.

In microbiological environmental monitoring programs, swabs are widely used for hygiene monitoring of surfaces and operators. Traditional rayon swabs are generally used and considered the gold standard in swab collection. Two experimental studies were conducted to validate the performance of a new collection device for environmental monitoring of surfaces, called flocked swabs, manufactured by microRheologics (Brescia, Italy).

Continuous microbiological air monitoring for aseptic filling lines.

Background: Pharmaceutical aseptic filling lines are used to fill sterile biotechnology products without affecting their quality by a terminal sterilization step. Standard grade A filling environments are required to have < 1 colony-forming unit (CFU) per cubic meter (m3) of air. Aseptic filling is the production cycle with one of the highest contamination risks.