Unit dose packaging can be done within a pharmacy at a very basic level. Blister packaging can be done with a hand-operated machine that seals the blister packaging. With the hand-measured and hand operated unit dose packaging within the pharmacy it is convenient to be able to make just the right dose for each consumer.
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However, there can also be a general dose of medication for general and common medication needs. In this case a unit dose packaging facility may come in more convenient where the unit dose packaging facility can easily mass produce unit dose packaging for your pharmacy needs. Unit dose packaging can be created in 3-D and seen and fixed before the unit dose packaging is even manufactured. Every little detail of the packaging is noted and designed on a computer before the unit dose packaging machine goes through its packaging system.
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Part of a unit dose packaging facility are clean, sterile rooms where medication and other product is put into packaging. This sterile environment is maintained and is important for the unit dose packaging system since the medication product within the air-tight, sealed and completed unit dose packaging needs to be sterile inside as to keep the freshness of the medication product and the validity of the expiration date for the medi dose consumer use.
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Unit dose packaging isn't only used for pharmacy medication. Unit dose packaging is also used in hospitals and used every day by physicians and nurses. Think of the syringes, the surgical tool packs used on a daily basis within the hospital. All of these are examples of unit dose packaging. Sometimes the packaging is only for the surgical or medical tools. And the medi dose is actually measured out by the nurse or doctor for the immediate use of the medication.
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Other examples of unit dose packaging use on a daily basis is the long term care facilities. Long term care facilities for the disabled or the elderly use unit dose packaging every day to serve their patients with the medication they need to fight off disease or illness.
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The rxinsider at the long term care facility, the rxinsider at the hospitals, and the rxinsider at the pharmacy will all tell you that unit dose packaging makes life easier for the rxinsider. Unit dose packaging can provide the rxinsider with the already measured medi dose of medication so that the rxinsider only has to then give the patient the prescribed amount. The next rxinsider that comes on shift can then see what has already been given in terms of medication because of the unit dose packaging there with the partial dose of medication left and/or from the scanned bar code in the computer that keeps notes on what has been given to the patient.
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Packaging systems, especially unit dose packaging systems have changed the world of medication and pharmacy. Unit dose packaging are now an every-day part of the pharmacy operating system. Unit dose packaging is now expected by consumers and thought as just how medication comes from the pharmacy. The important part of unit dose packaging is choosing the right unit dose packaging for your marketing and the ease of the consumer as well as the accuracy of the medication dose.
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Unit dose packaging isn't only used for pharmacy medication. Unit dose packaging is also used in hospitals and used every day by physicians and nurses. Think of the syringes, the surgical tool.... Learn more at Unit Dose Packaging and long term
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