RIVA, an automated compounding system from Intelligent Hospital Systems, prepares 50-1,000 mL IV bags, and can also prepare low- concentration dilution bags for pediatric dosing. South Carolina-based ...

IV robotics and workflow preparation technology is critical to the advancement of patient safety and accuracy in IV compounding. But while the need is widely recognized, barriers to adoption – ...

Introduction: Errors in the concentration of intravenous medications are not uncommon. We evaluated steps in the infusion-preparation process to identify factors associated with preventable medication ...

Intravenous medication is one of the crucial aspects of hospital and pharmacy, and preparation of these requires utter precision as the patient’s wellbeing is directly affected by the compounded ...

Hazardous IV prep is becoming an automated process at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Massachusetts. The hospital is using the CytoCare robot from healthcare services provider and drug wholesaler ...

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada A ...

Chemotherapy agents such as vincristine sulfate injection, vinblastine sulfate injection, and vinorelbine tartrate injection should only be prepared in IV infusion bags. The Food and Drug ...

Smith & Nephew has announced a voluntary nationwide recall of selected lots of IV PREP Antiseptic Wipes, manufactured for Smith & Nephew by The Triad Group, according to a company news release. Smith ...

A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee met twice late last week to discuss two opioid pain medications — one an intravenous preparation, the other a sublingual tablet — with very ...