What are the largest and smallest sizes of containers that currently work with CytoCare?
CytoCare uses a flexible design that enables to utilize and adapt to customer needs for syringes, bags, and bottles in different
sizes, and other changes that occur over time.
- IV bags 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 ml
- Syringes 2.5, 10, 50/60 ml
- B Braun Ecoflac Soft Plastic Bottles
- B Braun EasyPump Elastomeric Infusors
What is the type or brand of syringe hospitals typically use with CytoCare?
Becton-Dickinson Plastipak or similar.
Is the syringe a single-use syringe-needle combination, or is it used repeatedly if the drugs and containers are
part of a batch series of preparations?
Both are correct. Basically it is one preparation/one syringe. But if the pharmacist has multiple preparations using the same drug,
a single syringe can be used for more than one preparation (in order to speed up throughput). There is also the customary case of
a preparation using one drug and some additions to the IV Admixture (e.g., vitamins, anti-emetics, etc.); in which case each dose
component is managed with a different syringe-needle combination.
Is it possible to use one vial for multiple preparations?
Yes, CytoCare has the ability to utilize the same vial for multiple IV preparations. You can also re-use vials which are not fully
used during a given preparation cycle or preparation day. In this case, CytoCare retrieves the vial, maintains in its database all
information about that vial and its content, issues a special label for that vial, which will allow CytoCare to identify it when it
needs to be re-utilized. Whenever a production cycle runs, which includes a medication for which an open vial is available,
CytoCare will alert the operator and ask if he/she wants to use that open vial. The software can also keep track of the medication’
s stability window once open, and will ask the operator to discard the open vial, should it not be used within the pre-established
stability window.
Does CytoCare handle ampules?
No it does not handle amplules, as they are currently used for very few cytostatics and are forecasted to disappear from the
market in a short time mainly due to safety reasons.
How are syringes as final containers filled?
Whenever a syringe is used as final container, it is pre-labelled with a barcode, as any other final container utilized by CytoCare.
The robot will then look for that syringe in that size in the appropriate location within the CytoCare carousel. Should the syringe not
be available in the carousel, the software will ask the operator to load it into the system.
How do you extract excess liquid (glucose, saline) from containers?
This is done by a separated dedicated system, using a continuous aspiration pump, which can extract any quantity in one go. In
order to grant precision and safety, weight of containers is checked before and after extracting the liquid.
In the Elastomeric Infusor video, it looks like the needle is entering the infusor through luer lock cap, is it correct?
Yes, CytoCare precision permits using the luer-lock access point to inject liquids into the elastomeric infusor.
Is the luer-lock cap removed from the infusor at any stage while the infusor is processed inside Cytocare?
No, it is not necessary to remove it. CytoCare can manage to fill the elastomeric infusor without removing the luer-lock cap.
CytoCare uses a flexible design that enables to utilize and adapt to customer needs for syringes, bags, and bottles in different
sizes, and other changes that occur over time.
- IV bags 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 ml
- Syringes 2.5, 10, 50/60 ml
- B Braun Ecoflac Soft Plastic Bottles
- B Braun EasyPump Elastomeric Infusors
What is the type or brand of syringe hospitals typically use with CytoCare?
Becton-Dickinson Plastipak or similar.
Is the syringe a single-use syringe-needle combination, or is it used repeatedly if the drugs and containers are
part of a batch series of preparations?
Both are correct. Basically it is one preparation/one syringe. But if the pharmacist has multiple preparations using the same drug,
a single syringe can be used for more than one preparation (in order to speed up throughput). There is also the customary case of
a preparation using one drug and some additions to the IV Admixture (e.g., vitamins, anti-emetics, etc.); in which case each dose
component is managed with a different syringe-needle combination.
Is it possible to use one vial for multiple preparations?
Yes, CytoCare has the ability to utilize the same vial for multiple IV preparations. You can also re-use vials which are not fully
used during a given preparation cycle or preparation day. In this case, CytoCare retrieves the vial, maintains in its database all
information about that vial and its content, issues a special label for that vial, which will allow CytoCare to identify it when it
needs to be re-utilized. Whenever a production cycle runs, which includes a medication for which an open vial is available,
CytoCare will alert the operator and ask if he/she wants to use that open vial. The software can also keep track of the medication’
s stability window once open, and will ask the operator to discard the open vial, should it not be used within the pre-established
stability window.
Does CytoCare handle ampules?
No it does not handle amplules, as they are currently used for very few cytostatics and are forecasted to disappear from the
market in a short time mainly due to safety reasons.
How are syringes as final containers filled?
Whenever a syringe is used as final container, it is pre-labelled with a barcode, as any other final container utilized by CytoCare.
The robot will then look for that syringe in that size in the appropriate location within the CytoCare carousel. Should the syringe not
be available in the carousel, the software will ask the operator to load it into the system.
How do you extract excess liquid (glucose, saline) from containers?
This is done by a separated dedicated system, using a continuous aspiration pump, which can extract any quantity in one go. In
order to grant precision and safety, weight of containers is checked before and after extracting the liquid.
In the Elastomeric Infusor video, it looks like the needle is entering the infusor through luer lock cap, is it correct?
Yes, CytoCare precision permits using the luer-lock access point to inject liquids into the elastomeric infusor.
Is the luer-lock cap removed from the infusor at any stage while the infusor is processed inside Cytocare?
No, it is not necessary to remove it. CytoCare can manage to fill the elastomeric infusor without removing the luer-lock cap.
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