PMID: 8590238Nov 15, 1995Paper

Offsite intravenous admixture center shared by health-system facilities

American Journal of Health-system Pharmacy : AJHP : Official Journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
W S FauberR L Mady

Abstract

The creation of an offsite i.v. admixture center shared by four affiliated health care facilities is described. The i.v. admixture center was developed to consolidate the admixture services of four Carilion Health System (Roanoke, Virginia)-affiliated facilities: Roanoke Memorial Hospital (RMH), RMH's Cancer and Rehabilitation Center, Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley (CHRV), and the Roanoke Memorial Home Health Parenteral Therapy Program. The proposed advantages of a shared i.v. admixture service included providing full i.v. services for CHRV, increasing the ability to prepare home i.v. admixtures on a daily basis, increasing space for preparing i.v. admixtures, avoiding adding admixture staff members at any of the facilities, reducing supply duplication and admixture waste, and standardizing and improving quality. The Carilion Admixture Center was built in Carilion's materials management building at a total cost for construction and new equipment of $80,000; it opened in April 1992. The facility is responsible for providing piggyback admixtures, premixed piggyback solutions, injectable antineoplastic agents, total parenteral nutrient solutions, prefilled syringes for pediatric patients, large-volume solutions containing ad...Continue Reading

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