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Eli Lilly and Company, developers of the Identi-Code system of drug identification, now bring

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you Identidose.

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A new concept in drug packaging designed specifically for hospital pharmacies.

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Each element of this new system, the design of the enclosure, the design of the label,

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the multiple unit packaging for easy inventory and cost control,

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the carton in which it's stored.

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Each detail of this package design gives you greater control in every phase of drug handling,

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from pharmacy, to nursing station, to the patient, and back to the pharmacy.

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We call it closed circuit control, and this is how it works.

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This is the pharmacy in a typical 300-bed hospital in Chicago, perhaps similar in many

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ways to your own.

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Medication orders are received in the pharmacy from each nursing station on IBM cards once

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a day.

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A three or four day supply is then repackaged for the nursing station.

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Here, most bulk packaged tablets and capsules lose their positive identification as soon

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as they're taken from the manufacturer's original container.

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The Identidose capsules, however, retain their own unit of use label, one label for each

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dose.

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Packaged in units of 10 to simplify counting, the capsules are sent to the nursing station

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with each one still sealed in its original tamper-proof enclosure.

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As in most hospitals, the orders are verified by a second pharmacist.

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When checking prepackaged capsules and tablets, the pharmacist must rely on accuracy of label,

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color, shape, and size for verification of the drug.

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With Identidose, the actual manufacturer's label on each unit can be compared with the

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drug order, eliminating a potential source of medication error.

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This basket contains the drug supply for the second floor nursing station.

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It is filled once a day in the pharmacy and contains new orders and refill orders for

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the 35 patients on the second floor.

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The orders filled from bulk packages are now, for all practical purposes, beyond control

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of the pharmacy.

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Here in the nursing station, the Identidose package not only reduces the possibility of

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drug contamination, but simplifies inventory control of sedatives and narcotics.

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This nurse is one of six on the second floor nursing station who administers patient medication.

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Four times a day, she prepares the patient's drugs from the medication cards.

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Here again, she has no positive verification with most drugs.

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The Identidose package, however, gives her an original manufacturer's label to check

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against the medication card, a label that can be easily read, even in the dim light

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of a patient's room.

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In this cart are about 50 drugs for 14 different patients.

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Many of these drugs are easily identifiable by their familiar shape or color.

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Many are not.

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And only those drugs still in the manufacturer's original container are absolutely identifiable

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as a final check before they're administered to the patient.

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The patient's name is Roth.

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One of the drugs he'll receive is a 65-milligram capsule of Darvon compound.

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Since it left the pharmacy three days ago, this Identidose capsule has been in three

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different containers, a box in a basket, on a shelf, and finally a souffle cup on a rolling

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cart.

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It has been directly or indirectly handled by two pharmacists, an assistant, and several

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nurses.

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Yet, there can be no question of its identity, no possibility of contamination.

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Of all the advantages of Identidose packaging, this is perhaps the most significant.

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Mr. Roth receives his medication with the container still intact.

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Only with prepackaged unit dose medications are the elaborate controls and protective

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measures of the manufacturers and the control of the pharmacy department itself extended

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right to the patient.

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But not all the drugs received by the nursing unit will be administered to the patients.

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Many must be returned for credit.

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And here again, the Identidose package proves useful to the pharmacy.

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As long as the Identidose package remains intact, there is no need to worry about where

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it has been and how it has been handled.

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Unopened packages can be safely returned to the pharmacy even though they have been taken

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out of the nursing station and carried to the patient's room.

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At this moment, a label on the drug itself simplifies the problem of returning drugs

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to the proper container.

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And this is essentially what we mean by closed circuit control from the pharmacy to the nurse

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to the patient and back to the pharmacy.

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But beyond this, the Identidose packaging system offers several practical advantages

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within the pharmacy.

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Inventory control is simplified because the contents of the opened cartons packaged in

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units of 10 can be quickly and accurately counted.

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In width, the Identidose carton occupies no more room than a bottle of 100 capsules or

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tablets.

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And Identidose boxes can be stacked vertically where bottles cannot.

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More important, the long slender shape of the carton uses the depth of the shelf, space

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often wasted by other packages.

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The Identidose packaging concept, now available in the broad line of Lilly products, has been

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designed not only for the ultimate consumer, the patient.

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What for the pharmacist?

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Pharmacy, Nelson.

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The nurse.

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Yes?

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And the hospital administrator.

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A concept that can fit into your present drug distribution system as well as the systems

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you are planning for the future.

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Six four, six twelve, huh?

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Alright, hold on.

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Identidose.

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Okay, I shall do it.

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New from Eli Lilly and Company.