Diltiazem minibag+vial - safety concerns

PLEASE NOTE:   Posts made to this forum should not be considered as the expressed opinions of, nor should be considered endorsed by, the Medication Safety Officer’s Society (MSOS) or the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). 

Make sure your email is up-to-date
In order to continue to receive updates from MSOS, as well as forum posts and other valuable information as a member of MSOS, please be sure to update your email address with us, whenever it changes. If you need assistance doing so, please send an email to jrufo@ismp.org

3 posts / 0 new
Last post
Abhiruchi Mehta
Abhiruchi Mehta's picture
Offline
Last seen: 20 hours 21 min ago
Joined: 01/24/2024 - 15:37
Diltiazem minibag+vial - safety concerns

Hello, our institution typically uses the premixed bag for diltiazem, however in this instance, it has been ordered but will not be received for a few weeks.

Our plan is to make the minibag+vial for nurses to activate at bedside.

There are safety concerns around this because the diltiazem is a liquid formulation.

Have you had any experience with this concern? If so, I would appreciate if you could share how you mitigated it.

This is a shorter term problem and the plan so far is to disseminate education to our nurses, but any other safety measures or ideas would be beneficial.

thank you.