Baxa has introduced new sterile dispensers for oral and enteral medication delivery featuring clear barrels, non-luer tips, and distinctive purple plungers. The new products were developed in response to concerns over wrong-route administration of medications and feed, and provide immediate and distinct visual differentiation from standard injection syringes.
Oral dispensers are syringe-like devices with a unique tip configuration that cannot accommodate a hypodermic needle or actuate a needleless IV access port. Baxa Exacta-Med Dispensers were the first devices specifically designed to provide safe and accurate delivery of oral liquids. The new dispensers' purple plunger provides additional differentiation, makes training easier and further reduces the possibility of wrong-route administration through a patient's IV or epidural lines.
Authorities recommend the use of oral dispensers for all oral liquid doses.
Latex-free Baxa oral dispensers fit the needs of pharmacy, nursing and outpatient caregivers for safe medication administration. Specially designed tip caps seal oral unit doses in the oral dispensers until administration.
The new dispensers are supplied sterile and individually wrapped and available in 1, 3, 5, 10 and 20 mL sizes. Dispenser barrels feature graduations as low as 0.01 mL on the smallest size.
Oral dispensers are more accurate for drug delivery than teaspoons or graduated cups and safer than using injection syringes for oral medication delivery. The wide-tip design was developed in cooperation with leading children's hospitals.
Baxa manufactures medical devices and systems for preparing, handling, packaging, and administering liquid medications.
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