Abstract
Recently, regarding the dispensing of injections by hospital pharmacists, it is increasingly more important to check some incompatibilities to ensure the stability and safety of injections prescribed to inpatients by doctors.
Although various information is available on incompatibilities at the time that injection mixtures are pre-pared, such information is not always easily accessible during clinical use. As a result, we developed a computer system to check the compatibilities of various injection mixtures.
This system consists of four items to check injection prescriptions : 1) the independent drug indicated by the package insert, 2) the information of compatibility between 2 drugs based on published information and the literature, 3) examples of combination changes which both happen in medical wards, and are obtained from the literature, 4) the physical interactions resulting from pH change examinations for each drug.
Furthermore, this system is composed of three master files and it is designed so that such checks can be easily performed. With this system, not only can we check the compatibility of prescribed injections quickly, but we can also provide such information to other medical staff members.
