The discovery of a Long Island doctor's astonishingly lax approach to infection control has raised troubling questions about the adequacy of medical oversight in New York State — and the packaging of medicines in vials that are easy to contaminate.
According to state health officials, when giving a patient several different injections, Dr. Harvey Finkelstein had routinely used the same syringe to draw medicine or dye from multidose vials that were then used with other patients.
Predictions that five million travelers will lose pieces of checked luggage at some point this year provide depressing food for thought as we line up belt-free and shoeless, clutching the see-through bags of mini-measured toiletry vials that are demanded of modern air travelers.
Water samples stored in scintillation vials that were not acid-leached were analyzed for Cl-, Br-, F-, NO3-, and SO42- by ion chromatography (Dionex DX500 and a Dionex separation column).
The Investigational Pharmacy prepares study drug and placebo in identical vials that are randomly assigned study numbers in permuted blocks of eight.
"The vast majority of these were working stocks that had accumulated over several decades," he said, explaining that the initial inventory for the electronic database 4 years ago had focused on vials that were in active use.
With a modified vacuum filtration system, the filtrate was directly collected in clean 50 ml vials that were subsequently acidified with 0.1 ml ultraclean HCl, after which the sample was flushed with a 10 90 CO2:N2 gas mixture for one hour to ensure that no sulfide remains in the sample.
Three samples of the gaseous phase of the bergamot essential oil were prepared as follows: 100 mg of bergamot essential oil and 7 mg of anisole used as the internal standard, were transferred to three 10 mL vials that were sealed and then maintained at 0, 22 and 40 °C respectively.
Conditions close to oxygen saturation were achieved by filling 30 ml air-saturated medium in 120 ml serum vials that were sealed under air atmosphere.
All specimens of this HIV-1 group O panel were collected less than one year prior to the evaluation and only vials that were never thawed in the past were used for the present evaluation.
