A travel vaccine is removed from the fridge for a patient appointment that is then cancelled. It has been at room temperature for 5 hours. What is

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A travel vaccine is removed from the fridge for a patient appointment that is then cancelled. It has been at room temperature for 5 hours. What is the most appropriate action?

Accepted Answer

Quarantine and check product-specific stability before returning to stock

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Put it back immediately and use within a year

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Administer it to the next patient without checking

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Freeze it to reverse the temperature excursion

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Discard every vaccine without documenting the incident

Refrigerated vaccine handling — GPhC CRA MCQ

A travel vaccine is removed from the fridge for a patient appointment that is then cancelled. It has been at room temperature for 5 hours. What is the most appropriate action?