Two batches of medicines were recalled: some medicines should be sold with balances

Some mistakes are designed intentionally or unintentionally.

On February 3, the FDA official website announced that Apotex has recalled two batches of injections due to the wrong injection syringes in the packaging.

The normal state is that the scale mark is 100㎎/ml, but the syringe with the mark 150㎎/ml is wrongly used, and the syringe with 150mg/ml should be used and the one with 100㎎/ml is wrongly used.

In other words, the peanuts that should be placed with chopsticks are placed with straws, and the drinks that should be placed with straws are placed with chopsticks.

Is this error serious?

We know one thing that can completely delegate the right to buy or not to the patient's own hands, called OTC medication, such as Fengyoujing;

Those who leave the right to buy to the doctor are called prescription drugs;

The right to use medicines must be left to nurses, most of which are injections.

These rights correspond to the risk of drug use, such as vancomycin, the nurse will give you a bottle, and you can adjust the drip rate faster by yourself, which may cause the side effects of "Red Man Syndrome".

After checking the instructions of similar drugs, the drugs themselves are used to prevent venous thromboembolic diseases, treat deep vein thrombosis, treat unstable angina pectoris and Q-wave myocardial infarction.

But what is certain is that unless the output of these two products is exactly the same, it must be the result of multiple factors.

If the output and production date are exactly the same, then the error lies in the production packaging, quality inspection, storage and other processes.

Remember Kobayashi Chemical's tinea pedis medicine mixed with sleeping pills? The mistake led to secondary incidents and many casualties.

After all, Apotex is a large company with a long history and annual sales of hundreds of millions.

Speaking of this, what is the connection with the "sold with balance" in the title?

Of course, the mistakes made here are operational problems and can be corrected through internal staff intervention.

A bag of 20 grams, a total of 20 grams a day, but three times a day.

We won’t mention this inexhaustible divide by 20/3, but it also involves a distribution problem.

The current minimum weighing value commonly used in kitchen scales can meet three grams, but this assignment should not be left to the patient.

From the perspective of enterprise production, a 20-gram bag does have a better advantage.

The difference of 0.
2 grams must be easier to detect than 0.
07 grams, which is equivalent to shifting the risk of medication errors and the patient will bear it.
Of course, there should be no risks in the ingredients of this medicine, but it does not mean that such packaging is reasonable.
At the very least, how do you keep the medicine that you prescribed in the bag? The risk of contamination increases.
If the patient opens the bag and is reluctant to throw it away, the probability of adverse events also increases.

Don't be lazy if you can improve by design.
Never use tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness.
Otherwise, there are thousands of pharmaceutical companies with many similar products, why should I buy yours? An inhumane product cannot always have vitality.

Humanization is a must for all products.
Convenience to the patient is to bring the amount to yourself.
It can be said that if such an anti-human operation drug is not managed well, no decision maker will be innocent.