time with ready to go
medications are all
added values.
Annualizing your
costs for each drug,
including the consid-
erations above, lets
you see whether pre-
filled syringes will
reduce your facility's
medication waste or
the number of
syringes your staff
have to fill themselves. If it's only $1,500 more a year to go prefilled,
maybe it's a logical way to go for the added safety benefits. After
all, the bottom line with prefilled syringes is efficiency, compliance
and safety. So you need to do the math to determine how much
those benefits are worth to your facility.
OSM
5 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • M A Y 2 0 1 8
• WASTEFUL A drawback to single-use vials: wasting the medication that didn't
make it into the syringe you drew up.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN,
CNOR
Mr. Karwoski (john@jdjconsulting.net) is the president and founder of JDJ
Consulting, a pharmacy consulting company in Wenonah, N.J.
