There is no doubt that these occurrences of microbial contamination are a failure of one or more elements of contamination control. Perhaps it was an inadvertent ...

New BD PurPrep™ skin preparation is the only commercially available PVP-I antiseptic skin preparation with sterile solution in the U.S. FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, ...

Increasing competition and decreasing reimbursement for services provided are driving healthcare organizations to seek innovative value-based, patient-safety focused solutions. Hospitals and ...

The introduction of the United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <797> regulation in 2008 sent and continues to send shock waves through hospital pharmacy departments and other sterile drug preparation ...

On Nov. 1, the new U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards on sterile and nonsterile compounding will be implemented. Here’s what leaders need to know about USP 795 and USP 797: a. Nonpreserved aqueous dosage ...

(RTTNews) - Becton, Dickinson and Company or BD (BDX), a medical technology company, said Tuesday that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA for BD ChloraPrep skin ...

Pharmaceutical suites are subject to strict requirements regarding the air supplied to and exhausted from their preparation, storage, and distribution areas. Designing for an appropriate level of ...

Pharmacy staff who prepare IV drugs inside hospitals are the latest health care workers decrying a shortage of masks as they scramble to prepare medicines for patients with diagnoses ranging from ...

The division of pharmacy at this institution provides sterile compounding training to employees, including a 20-hour didactic training course to all pharmacists and a 40- hour didactic course to ...