title: Consumption-based approach for pharmaceutical compounds in a large hospital.
abstract: Hospital wastewater contains a great variety of pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs), mainly due to excretion by patients. These PhCs, called emerging pollutants, are not fully eliminated in treatment plants, and are consequently detected in various environmental matrices, contributing to bacterial resistance and adverse environmental impacts on water resources. This study explores a consumption-based approach to predict the contribution of PhCs to a Brazilian hospital's wastewater. This approach identifies the consumption of major pharmaceutical classes in the studied hospital. Overall, this approach demonstrates a unique opportunity to screen PhCs used in hospitals and identify priority pollutants in hospital wastewater.
authors: a Chemical Engineering Department , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , RS , Brazil.
authors: Fernanda Siqueira
authors: FS
authors: Souza
authors: a Chemical Engineering Department , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , RS , Brazil.
authors: Liliana Amaral
authors: LA
authors: Féris
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D062065:Wastewater; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D062065:Wastewater; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
keywords: Antibiotics; emerging pollutants; environmental risk; hospital wastewater; pharmaceutical compounds