A Modified Potency Test Strategy for IV Admixtures Prepared by Robotic Systems
Introduction: Robotic systems are increasingly used for compounding sterile IV admixtures (1-5). In addition to routine gravimetric checks, initial and periodic drug potency analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is desired to verify the system accuracy. However, the conventional HPLC test procedures often result in unexpected failures (1-2). This study was initiated to develop a modified HPLC test strategy to eliminate the common source of variability and focus the effort on the accuracy of robotic system.
Robotics in acute care hospitals.
In the past few years, ASHP has been focusing on the future practice of pharmacy in hospitals and health systems. In November 2010, the Pharmacy Practice Initiative Summit was held. During this summit, one of the main focus areas was how information technology and automation played a crucial role in
Frequency selective surface design for blinds applications
In this paper, the reconfigurable blind structure with frequency selective surfaces(FSS) for the building applications are presented. Frequency transmission characteristics for different angles of the proposed blind-FSSs are investigated and verified through simulation and measurement. The simulation results show that we can implement the reconfigurable blind-FSS for multiband wireless applications. To verify the proposed paper, two kinds of blind-FSSs, crossed dipole FSS and circular ring FSS are fabricated and measurements are performed for different angles. The proposed structure in this paper which is very simple, can be easily applied to any planar surface for wireless security applications at low cost.