"The Pharmacy department of the Radboud university medical center in the Netherlands has a compounding unit that compounds (preparation for administration) over 60,000 units annually, using the BD Cato™ workflow system. About half of the preparations are products for outpatient care, mainly elastomeric pumps with antibiotics. As the manual filling of large numbers of elastomeric pumps puts a lot of physical stress on the technicians, we have implemented the KIRO® Oncology robot for automated compounding of non-cytostatics, being antibiotics. The BD Cato™ system has been integrated for bi-directional communication with the KIRO® robot and its workflow system KIRO® Link. The two systems have different set-ups and both BD Cato™ as well as Kiro-Grifols have put large effort in incorporating the IV robot into the Radboudumc workflow.
Currently, with the help of BD Cato™ we have bi-directional communication between the Epic hospital system used to prescribe cytostatics and BD Cato™. By putting all the pieces together BD Cato™ enables us to benefit the most from automation to support our workflow for compounding. ”
Anna De Geode
Lead Aseptic Pharmacist and Qualified Person
Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands