Operator Manual for the Baxter ExactaMix 2400 Compounder
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An ingredient is a solution of a specific chemical entity at a specific concentration regardless of
container size, container type or manufacturer. One ingredient can have several associated
products.
A product is an ingredient in a particular container size and type from a specific manufacturer.
Several products can be associated to one ingredient group.
For example, in North America:
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Ingredient: Dextrose 70%
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Products:
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Hospira Dextrose 70%, 2000 mL bag
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Hospira Dextrose 70%, 1000 mL bag
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Hospira Dextrose 70%, 500 mL bottle
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Baxter Dextrose 70%, 2000 mL bag
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Baxter Dextrose 70% 1000 mL bottle
INGREDIENT GROUPS
An ingredient group is a list of chemically similar ingredients. For example:
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Ingredient Group: Phosphate
Ingredients: K Phos 3mM/mL, Na Phos 3mM/mL
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Ingredient Group: Calcium
Ingredients: Ca Gluconate 10%, Ca Chloride 10%
Some ingredients can tolerate each other’s presence in the finished solution, but must be
separated during compounding to ensure that they do not mix within the common fluid
pathway, or within the patient bag in the absence of sufficient volume. These ingredients are
considered to be incompatible. For example, calcium and phosphate should not be mixed in
their concentrated forms (in the absence of amino acids), or a precipitate will immediately
result. The compounder will pump incompatible ingredients only if it can pump a user-specified
volume of another ingredient between them.
Each ingredient group has a list of other groups with which it is incompatible. When ingredients
are assigned to these groups, the software can detect formulas in which incompatible
ingredients are not sufficiently separated.
UNIVERSAL INGREDIENT
When a patient bag is removed, approximately 25 mL of the last ingredient pumped remains in
the common fluid pathway. This ingredient then becomes the first ingredient to enter the next
patient bag when the next solution is compounded. Because this ingredient must be suitable
for all formulas, it is called the Universal Ingredient (UI).
Each formula must include enough UI volume to allow a final flush, which flushes all the
previous ingredients into the patient bag. Regardless of the total volume of the UI to be
delivered, the compounder reserves enough UI volume to perform a final flush at the end of
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