Our Organization is discussing the risk - benefit of carrying two different concentrations of Atropine injection (for Cardiac Resuscitation) versus two different sizes of the same concentration.
The health system is made up of several hospitals: one is a Pediatric Specialty Hospital, the others are general hospitals treating adult, pediatric and Neonatal patients (NICU).
Basically, the pharmacies all need to come to agreement on which products to stock, and a standard process to assure the intended product is only distributed to the intended Care Area.
What is the best practice; is it stocking lowest commercial available dose of a medication, for NICU and facilities that see NICU patient population? Or keeping a single concentration but different size containers?
How have other organizations determined which products to carry, and how do you keep them from unintentionally getting miss-stocked? Thank you in advance for your replies!