Phentolamine Mesylate for Injection
Precision Dose announces the recent FDA approval of phentolamine mesylate for injection, USP 5 mg/vial. The expected date for official launch is December 1. Visitors to the Precision Dose booth at the ASHP Midyear Meeting in Orlando can learn more.

Precision Dose
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Spanish Auxiliary Labels
Medi-Dose/EPS announces the addition of a complementary series of Spanish auxiliary labels to its product line. These labels call attention to the same special information and indications for medication as the company’s English-language pharmacy warning and instruction labels. Medi-Dose/EPS Auxiliary Labels measure 3/8” x 1 ½” and are brightly colored so they call attention to themselves. All of the labels contain easily identifiable graphics depicting what is being described. In addition, when used with the company’s Mini-LiquiDose Labels, pharmacists and nurses can design their own auxiliary labels for their particular needs. Bar codes, graphics, special fonts, tall man lettering, shapes, and logos can be included on the labels.

Medi-Dose/EPS, Inc
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Compounding Workflow System
ICU Medical’s Diana compounding workflow system helps maximize efficiency and safety by remotely verifying every mix without requiring staff to gown up and enter the cleanroom. Diana combines automated compounding and IV workflow technologies with wireless pharmacist notification to let users remotely verify each preparation on a handheld tablet display. Integrated high-definition cameras allow visualization of the workflow for faster, more accurate, high-volume compounding, while closed-system components help ensure USP <800> compliance. (Disposables pending FDA 510(k) clearance. Not available for commercial sale.)

ICU Medical
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Controlled Medication Auditing
Kit Check’s Bluesight for Controlled Substances (Bluesight CS) is designed to optimize medication auditing from cabinet to patient and safeguard against drug diversion events. Allowing hospitals to leverage machine learning to manage and interpret highly complex information, Bluesight CS seamlessly connects information from ADCs, EMRs, and other systems to provide an audit of the dispense, administration, waste, and return records for controlled substances. Discrepancies are flagged for review, meaning pharmacy staff does not need to spend time manually matching records. Machine algorithms uncover hidden patterns and correlations not readily revealed in manual audits. Hospital administrators receive specific, actionable recommendations on anomalous behavior and documentation patterns, and can gain insight into critical usage areas, such as the OR and other procedural areas that might not follow the standard order process.

Kit Check
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Software Update
BD announces new a software version of its Pyxis ES platform, which delivers a variety of powerful benefits for health systems’ medication management. The Pyxis ES system is a scalable, Web-based platform designed to improve medication management. Key enhancements include bi-directional interoperability with HIT systems across the medication-use process; a mobile application allowing nursing to request a dose of patient-specific medication directly to pharmacy; support of secure traceable fill, check, transportation, and delivery of medications; mobile tracking of medication delivery; and intra-operability across the medication-management process. The BD Pyxis ES system release 1.5 adheres to the highest security compliance standards issued by the US government for the encryption of data transmission and storage.

BD
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Chemo Gown
Contec CritiGear Chemo Gowns are designed to provide protection against exposure to a wide range of hazardous drug compounds. The USP <800>-compliant protective BloxTech fabric technology is tested per ASTM D6978-05 standards. The disposable gown’s sleeve length, knit cuffs, and thumb loops allow for wearer comfort and eliminate movement of sleeves when performing compounding activities. Available in combination sizing for ease of donning over other cleanroom apparel, the gown’s wraparound and tie design with hook and latch closures on the back provide total coverage against permeation.

Contec, Inc
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Wireless Ambulatory Infusion Pump
Smiths Medical has received FDA 510(k) clearance on the CADD-Solis ambulatory infusion pump with wireless communication, a system that helps hospitals increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve patient outcomes. The CADD-Solis ambulatory infusion pump can now communicate wirelessly to and from PharmGuard Server Software. This allows clinicians to deploy software updates and drug libraries to all pumps simultaneously, remotely manage pump performance and monitor drug dosing, track pump location to the last known wireless access point, download infusion data reports, and enable data integration to patient records. Combining the mobility advantages of an ambulatory pump and the efficiency of a single infusion system, the CADD-Solis ambulatory infusion pump delivers intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA), epidurals, and peripheral nerve blocks, in addition to other indications for use.

Smiths Medical
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Automated Medication Replenishment
Stat Stock, the automated medication replenishment process from Health Care Logistics, is a fast, user-friendly way for pharmacies to check the status of medication and supplies for greater accuracy and improved patient safety. The system uses RFID tags to manage the pharmacy’s drug and supply inventory, allowing users to instantly identify and locate expired or recalled medication anywhere in their facility, then replenish or remove accordingly. Automated reports help to monitor inventory and track trends. The Stat Stock suite of applications allows for better management of inventory and improved safety.

Health Care Logistics
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IV Compounding Solution
BD is bringing its IV compounding solution, BD Cato, into its Pyxis portfolio and introducing new enhancements that extend IV compounding safety to a broader set of IV medications. The BD Pyxis IV Prep includes more configuration options to support pharmacy operations, a guided volumetric workflow for increased flexibility, interoperability with Epic EMR (including inbound orders and outbound NDC usage information) for more accurate billing, gravimetric batching capabilities that enable anticipatory and patient-specific batching for a safer yet streamlined and efficient workflow, and an expanded implementation database that includes critical drug information for faster and easier implementation.

BD
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Drug Shortage Products
As hospital pharmacies continue to experience widespread drug product shortages, as well as restricted supplies of some infusion bags, QuVa Pharma advises that it offers a wide range of shortage products. Hydromorphone and morphine in syringes, rocuronium, sodium bicarbonate, dextrose 50%, calcium gluconate, as well as oxytocin are available in a wide range of concentrations and infusion bag types. QuVa is currently supplying these products to existing customers and welcomes new inquiries.

QuVa Pharma, Inc
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