The use of technology to ensure the correct dose of medicines

Abstract The hospital pharmacy aims, in the context of patient safety, to collaborate in the process of health care and well-being, ensuring that the patient uses the prescribed medication, in the appropriate presentation, time, dose, dosage and routes, avoiding errors associated with medications. As an important measure to reduce the risk of…

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A story that deserves to be told…

It was 2008, Victor Basso and Moisés Curvello, founded Opuspac. Both engineers had 50 years of business experience between them. They started with a small plant, measuring 130 m², and one technician. Everything in this company was designed from scratch, without any imitation. Victor says he doesn't know how to repeat a design. That's the only way to…

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Software to measure errors

Adverse Events (AEs) caused by medications are those that present the greatest individual risk of harm to patients in hospitals. The medication chain involves several sectors of the hospital: Standardization Receipt Distribution Unitarization Prescription Clinical Pharmacology Medication administration Medication return. In all these steps, it is essential to…

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Measure times inside the hospital or throw millions down the drain?

Today more than ever, a hospital is a multidisciplinary place where managers, lawyers, clinical engineers, administrators, logistics managers, and human resources specialists all work together, all collaborating so that the complex “hospital machine” and the professional work of doctors can be carried out in the best conditions.

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Administer medications to more than one patient. What are the risks?

We are referring to the simultaneous preparation of medications in the ward, to later take them to the rooms of the various patients. This practice speeds up the preparation. For example, preparing all the syringes at once and then taking them to the rooms.

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How to decide between centralized or distributed hospital logistics? And avoid spending millions more!

The word “centralized” seems to be very popular these days. We have heard a lot about patient-centered medicine, which involves treating the patient as a whole and not in a fragmented way, divided by disease. However, patient-centered or patient-centered distribution has nothing to do with patient-centered medicine.

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I already have the barcode on the ampoule, is it possible to improve this?

A large number of vials have always had a linear barcode. But now, we have several medications in vials with Datamatrix barcodes (two-dimensional barcodes). What do these barcodes add to the data we already have, such as the batch number and expiration date, and they also have a very low error rate.

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