• You'll save time. Time could be your greatest gain. Your anesthe-
sia providers will have more time to monitor the patient and the
equipment rather than handle medication vials and needles. One study
found prefilled syringe use let clinicians spend more time with
patients and led to quicker OR turnover.
"Physicians', pharmacists' and nurses' time is not cheap," says Dr.
Gonzalez.
Injectable drug delivery
If you're still not sold, pharmacy experts suggest a small sampling.
Perhaps order prefilled syringes of a few of the drugs you use most
often and a few of the drugs you waste the most. Or order syringes for
induction, reversal and emergencies. One study examined 9 prefilled
syringes: atropine,
cefazolin, ephedrine,
esmolol, glycopyrro-
late, lidocaine,
phenylephrine, suc-
cinylcholine and
vecuronium.
"I generally prefer
purchasing a drug in
prefilled syringes if
that option is avail-
able because it mini-
mizes the risk of
microbial contamina-
tion, coring a rubber
stopper on a vial or
the presence of
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