Health Robotics today announced its plans to unveil TPNstation's development plans and product specifications for a new and revolutionary concept: "Totally Automated Parenteral Nutrition", a new key component of its i.v. Room of the Future vision to be showcased at Las Vegas' ASHP (Booth # 114).
"I look forward to see the reaction from our customers to the TPNstation's blueprints and to find out if TPNstation appears to meet their prior requests to complete the automation of the I.V. Room with Parenteral Nutrition after we led the industry in solving I.V. Therapy issues over the last 2 to 3 years with CytoCare, i.v.STATION, and i.v.SOFT. Parenteral Nutrition continues to be an area of concern for our customers in terms of patient safety, especially in Pediatrics, given biocompatibility issues, complicated calculations, patient-specific formulations, and the current lack of assured sterility at compounding centers," stated Paolo Giribona, Health Robotics' Director for Research & Development.
"Totally Automated Parenteral Nutrition is a new concept that leapfrogs the status-quo of TPN Automation (6, 9, 10, 12, or 24-channel partially-automated units from companies such as Baxter, Neocare, Fresenius, B|Braun, and Baxa) to a new level of TPN CPOE software-machine integration (including the multi-language features lacking in today's market), and with: up to 32-channels (so Pharmacy Techs do not need to manually add 8 ingredients to say, a 24-channel compounded I.V. Bag); faster pumping rates (18 ml/second); automatic labeling of the I.V. Bags (to reduce manual errors in labeling); digital and/or Bar-Code recognition of source-ingredient containers (to eliminate source-ingredient error); within an ISO-Class 5 sealed chamber [including overnight UV-lamps sterilization] that can enable Health-System Pharmacists to compound TPNs anywhere, anytime without the need for a "clean room"; and with greater sterility than traditional open compounding units, simultaneously filling 15 I.V. Bags (up to 3 liters each) without operator assistance," stated Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics' architect of Health Robotics' i.v. Room of the Future, and co-developer with Mr. Giribona of TPNstation.