Productivity
KIRO® Oncology
“Robotics is a great opportunity to help hospital pharmacies to face increasing needs of injectable preparations with inextensible human resources. This, highlights the big impact and the need to adapt our organizations to the robotics to be able to capitalize on this emerging technology(10)”
Workflow and organizational changes greatly influence automatic compounding results by:
Tips to increase automatic compounding productivity:
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Reduce non-operation time of the robot (11)
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Consider anticipatory and standard dose production(11)
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Balance manual and automatic preparations (11)
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Design and optimization of the cycles (n=154) from 2 ± 0.3 min to compound an irinotecan bag (200 to 340 mg) to 8.3 ± 0.4 min to compound a rituximab bag of 1000 mg(24)
