Per 6 north policy/mysterious fax sent to pharmacy:
If Totect is needed on the unit for a suspected anthracycline extravasation please call the pharmacy department A.S.A.P. Pharmacy staff will go over to the Cancer Center at any time and bring the Totect drug kit over to the hopital to be given.
I believe "at any time" should be taken to mean immediately, not at our leisure, as there will be no time to lose.
Totect or Zinecard is also known as Dexrazoxane generically. Totect is indicated for anthracycline-induced extravasation, while Zinecard is used as a cardioprotectant in women with metastatic breast cancer who have received a total cumulative dose of doxorubicin of 300mg/m2 and need to continue therapy.
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WTF?!?
ReplyDeleteWho is tonto? Did you take your leisure time to obtain it?
ReplyDeleteTotect is the only available product at this time and the company will not promote it to be used as the cardioprotectant. Each Totect kit is approx. $15,000.
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