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Biomedical Engineering
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital to update nutrition therapy processes
December 1st, 2005
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) launched a program to update their total parenteral nutrition (TPN) processes. The program's primary objective was to develop a safer, more clinically effective TPN environment. A multidisciplinary team formed to look at the available alternatives to meet this and other objectives, such as decreasing adverse drug events (ADEs), compliance with USP <797>, minimizing infection risk and reducing compounding time. After careful consideration, in March of 2004, the task force elected to integrate Baxa Corporation's Exacta-Mix 2400 (EM2400) hardware and the TPN Medsoft Software from Monterey Medical Solutions...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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