Working with Clyde Buchanan:
"[Clyde] has the practical understanding of what it takes not only to improve the quality of compounding sterile preparations, but all aspects of improving the use of medicines in the institutional setting including strategic planning, budgeting, and implementation."
Philip J. Schneider, MS, FASHP
2008 Whitney Award Winner
Clinical Professor and Associate Dean
University College of Pharmacy at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus
Phoenix, AZ
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Empower your staff to improve safety, quality and compliance with new guidelines and standards. We’ve updated every chapter of this popular discussion of the fundamentals of compounding sterile preparations in hospital, home-care, and community pharmacy settings to reflect the most recent revisions to USP Chapter <797>. Included are the latest guidelines for the compounding process, quality assurance methods, and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of handling sterile preparations. Chapters new to this edition focus on gap analysis and action plans, safe use of automatic compounding devices, cleaning and disinfecting, radiopharmaceuticals as CSPs, and allergen extracts as CSPs. Comprehensive documentation for the guidelines is included in the appendices.
Chapters by Mr. Buchanan:
- Standards for Sterile Preparations
- Sterile Preparation Formulation
- Ancillary Equipment and Supplies
- Personnel Cleansing and Garbing
- Documentation of Compounded Sterile Preparations
- Handling Sterile Commercial Products and Compounded Sterile Preparations in the Pharmacy
- Batch Compounding
- Gap Analyses and Action Plans
- Pharmacy Technician Education, Certification, Training, Evaluation and Regulation
- Secondary Engineering Controls (Cleanrooms)
- Cleaning and Disinfecting
- Policies, Procedures, and Quality Assurance Programs
- Outsourcing the Compounding of Sterile Preparations
- Glossary
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