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Melissa, I think that what you're looking for is contained in "ingredients" (top of page 5 of Magic Drug dictionary). We print ingredients on all IV dispensing labels, not additives or carriers. Additives and carriers are on a second "verification" label. Advantages: 1.Meditech totals ingredients for you when it prints, so if you have sodium from Clinimix + added NaCl, all sodium shows up in a single "Sodium" field. 2. Nursing doesn't see what you actually put in the IV, just the total amount of mEq or whatever. This eliminates virtually all phone calls like "the order says 100 mEq but the label says 25 ml." The additives are on the second label, which remains in the pharmacy. It acts as the "recipe" for use by the technician. It also shows who prepared and checked the IV so we don't have to maintain a separate compounding log. For example, for Clinimix E 5/15, our ingredients are: CALORIES CALORIES, TOTAL 710 KCAL CAL_NP CALORIES, NON-PROTEIN 510 KCAL DEXTROSE DEXTROSE 150 GM NITROGEN NITROGEN 8 GM PROTEIN PROTEIN EQUIVALENTS 50 GM ACETATE ACETATE 80 MEQ CALCIUM CALCIUM 4.5 MEQ CHLORIDE CHLORIDE 39 MEQ MAGNESIUM MAGNESIUM 5 MEQ PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATE 15 MM POTASSIUM POTASSIUM 30 MEQ SODIUM SODIUM 35 MEQ This reflects the total contained in the dispensing unit (in this case 1000 ml). Note that the first 5 ingredients have a space as the first character of the nmemonic. This insures that they show up first on the label. They were included to help our dieticians and physicians identify things outside of normal electrolytes, etc. It is also where the dextrose and amino acid information you asked about comes in. (We didn't identify the individual AA's like Leucine, Isoleucine, etc. That information can be provided if you want, but it really would make for a long label.) Warning: be sure that your PHA toolbox setting is set to "Drug Ingredients Overwrite = N" before doing your FSV updates, or all this custom hard work gets messed up. Attached is source code for our TPN (thermal) label. Hope this helps, Alan Miller, RPh Catawba Valley Medical Center Hickory, NC 28602 >>> "Melissa Wyant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/10/2006 08:05 >>> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ======================================
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