Depending on the patient and the condition, Brooks administers the infusion in one- or two-hour doses while patients sit in a chair, similar to chemo or dialysis.
EDTA was intravenously slowly administered (the infusion lasted about 2 hours) to the patients.
Protracted infused regimens are resource-intensive not only in terms of nurses and doctors to administer the infusion but also in terms of pharmacy time and resources.
At last, the doctor who administers the infusion checks the identification of the patient, the prescription and preparation of the drug, affixes the drug label into the medical record and documents this with his signature.
The principal investigator (KK) administered the infusions, assisted by a nurse.
7, 9 Analyses carried out within the Italian health care system 10, 11 have demonstrated that differences in the methods of administering the two drugs, (by infusion or orally), and their toxicity profiles affect patient quality of life.
The bleeding risk can be minimized by correcting thrombocytopenia (maintaining platelet counts >30,000/m) with platelet transfusion and prolonged PT/PTT with FFP infusion, before administering the drug.
There were practical issues seen in the outpatient setting with patients on the 24-h obatoclax infusions that were not seen with the shorter 3-h infusions administered in the infusion suite.
Fluobiprofen axetil (50 mg, Tide Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Beijing, China) was administered before the infusion of remifentanil in the Rem + Flur group.
Normal saline and Ringer Lactate solutions were administered with the infusion rate being adjusted from 6 to 10 ml/Kg/h according to blood loss.
