The Additives Module:
The Additives Module was developed to meet the needs of
contemporary Pharmacy practice. There is
an increasing demand on Pharmacy services to produce a range of sterile
preparations for individual patients, particularly Parenteral Nutrition
Solutions, Cytotoxic, and other Intravenous Additive Preparations. With this demand there are pressures from
hospital managements for financial accountability; Pharmacy State Regulatory Boards for patient
records and medication profiling; Manufacturing Codes of Ethics for manufacturing records; Blood Transfusion Service products requiring
batch tracking; and the need for efficient use of Pharmacy labour.
The main objectives of the module are to :
1. Provide for compounded
preparations, particularly sterile products produced for individual patients.
2. Provide for scheduling of work to be done in particular
work areas. This is particularly important with cancer chemotherapy,
where
patients may receive cytotoxic therapy at regular intervals, and are scheduled
for therapy.
3. Provide for the necessary batch records for the Code of
Good Manufacturing Practice.
4. Provide for the necessary additive label for the Code of
Good Manufacturing Practice.