Pharmaceutical Temperature excursions monitored at US Hospital

Like many hospitals, one US-based Timestrip customer maintains a fleet of ambulances that serves the local community. Use of the pharmaceutical products carried by the ambulances is subject to rules laid down by the state Board of Pharmacy.

This is responsible for regulating the practice of pharmacy and the legal distribution and dispensing of prescription drugs and precursor substances.

One stipulation requires hospital-based ambulance services to monitor their drug kits for extreme temperatures while out in the field. So hospital medics turned to Timestrip monitoring devices to track the kits as they are stored and transported.

Timestrip liquid-based TTIs and Timestrip neo TT525-AB electronic indicators are placed on the drug kits before they are deployed in the field. In this way, the hospital receives a clear, irreversible visual alert if the drugs are exposed to conditions below freezing point or above 100ºF (48ºC).

Timestrip neo is a range of very small and light time and temperature indicators that provide a highly cost effective method of monitoring the conditions in which drugs and other products are kept.

Using the tiny Timestrip devices means the hospital can be sure whether the acceptable pharmaceutical temperature excursions of products has been breached or not. This safeguards the patients and means that medicines don’t have to be discarded unnecessarily.