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 ...

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 ...

An intravenous (IV) injection is an injection of a medication or another substance into a vein and directly into the bloodstream. It is one of the fastest ways to get a drug into the body, often ...

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 ...