Cdex, Inc. (fka CDEX)

[d4diddy]

"How useful is valimed?"

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/09/23/deaths_of_3_babies_in_indiana_spotlight_medica....


Well doyourdd, here's what I consider to be an honest answer from a CDEx Long that apparently works in the medical field And don't forget that Valimed checks high-risk medications compounded in the pharmacy, I don't believe that the tragic deaths in Indiana fall into that category as much as the penny stock promoters would love to use the sad news to sensationalize the company's product.


By: dssu6255
19 Sep 2006, 02:56 AM EDT
Msg. 29951 of 30077
(This msg. is a reply to 29949 by L_Apollyon.)
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I don't believe that this type of error could have been prevented w/the ValiMed system.

We have caught this type of error before at the hospital I work at. 100u/ml heparin is mistakenly stocked in the neonate Pyxis instead of the 10u/ml vial.

It's just plain stupid human error, that requires pharmacy and nursing staff to triple check the vial label strength before stocking and administering.

It wouldn't be practical to "test" the substance of every vial that's taken from stock for administration. All that's needed is to READ the vial label correctly in the first place to ascertain whether it's the correct strength.

These types of problems which happen way to often, have to be prevented by good old-fashioned human concentration. No machine is going to quick fix this situation.
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