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Despite a growing focus on purchasing medications in bar coded unit dose and the increasing availability of these products, in-house repackaging remains an essential and important component of pharmacy operations. Most facilities take a dual approach to repackaging, utilizing both manual systems and tabletop repackaging machines. This category attains impressively high user satisfaction ratings... Read more
In the continuous effort to comply with USP and Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals, pharmacists are seeking products that save time and labor while supporting patient safety. Ready-to-use IV products are often cited as a means to meet those ends, as they eliminate the need to perform compounding and, therefore, can reduce the potential for medication errors and product contamination.... Read more
Once a finished chemotherapy preparation leaves the hazardous buffer room, a variety of staff members, including pharmacists, delivery staff, nursing, and environmental services, may touch the preparation during its lifecycle. The safe handling practices conducted within the containment primary engineering control (C-PEC) are as critical for the compounder’s protection as they are for... Read more
Sterile compounding relies on clean, controlled, and orderly cleanroom environments, making aseptic technique foundational to this work. However, hazardous drug (HD) spills remain an unavoidable reality in pharmacy practice. A vial may slip from gloved hands during preparation, fall while being transported to the biological safety cabinet (BSC), or break during restocking. Such events pose exposure... Read more
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