The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

Many medications are typically dosed according to a patient’s weight or other measure of body size. These medications frequently come in uniform, single-dose vials intended for one treatment, but ...

VOORHEES, N.J., Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- A nurse, turned inventor, has developed a new product that will prevent bacterial infections resulting from the use of multi-dose medication vials, it ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

Waste, cost, and "common sense" continue to rationalize healthcare providers' use of single-use vials of injectable medications for more than 1 patient. Following publication of Single-Use Vials: Cost ...

Single-dose ADD-Vantage, conventional vial, and frozen bag formulations supplied as 3.375- and 4.5-g doses were utilized for intermittent infusion. Piperacillin-tazobactam in 0.9% sodium chloride ...