Drugs alone do not cure people with illnesses: a holistic approach to patient health care is required, from medical devices and procedures to drug delivery and personal hygiene.
Today, there is a medication for nearly every disease. The pharmaceutical industry develops medicines that are meant to cure a patient. But it is not enough to develop an adequate drug; for a successful therapy, it is important that the steps from production to application are performed correctly and safely.
During the production of pharmaceutical items, quality control throughout the entire process is essential since any variations may have a direct effect on the patient’s health
and safety. Therefore, production should follow the Good Manufacturing Practice directive.
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When it comes to drug application it is essential that the patient is receiving the right drug in the right dosage, that it is applied with the best application system, and that comprehensive hygiene protection measures have been taken. Well-functioning hygiene largely contributes to the success of the treatment. Many studies demonstrate the effects that lack of hygiene have on patients and nursing staff.
The failure of a therapy is often put down to the drug, but this is not always true; often the failure is due to medication errors. In Europe, medication errors harm up to seven of 100 patients in a hospital. As many as four out of 100 patients who need to be admitted to hospital suffer from medication error1. These errors may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures and systems, including prescribing, order communication, product labelling, packaging, compounding, dispensing, administration, monitoring and use.
Medication errors, infections and therapy failure are most likely preventable by improvement of medication and health care systems, and by medicines designed for safe usage. The pharmaceutical industry can make a contribution by providing safe and exact application devices with their medicine. The solution is working with a reliable outsourcing partner.
Safety expert
B. Braun is an international health care provider with long-term expertise in the production of pharmaceutical and medical products. Based on this expertise, the OEM Division supplies system-built solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.
The product portfolio comprises pharmaceutical solutions, medical devices and products for disinfection and hygiene. Whether provided as standard or customised products, the
B. Braun portfolio spans
the whole health care value chain and provides high quality and product safety.
B. Braun OEM has expertise in medical sciences, pharmacy, product development, production, law, packaging and logistics. This provides complete outsourcing knowledge to the customers. The OEM project management teams are the experts for individual customer ideas. The principal activities within customer projects are product variation and combination, pharmaceutical contract manufacturing and common development. Along with
the additional support such as analytical services, regulatory support and a professional customer and logistic service, B. Braun OEM is able to provide system-built solutions.
Companies in the health care market have a special responsibility for ensuring the best possible patient care and for supporting those who interact with patients. With the expertise of B. Braun, the pharmaceutical industry can provide not only the drug, but also the complete system to apply the drug exactly and safely – therapy safety from bottle to body.
1 The Council of Europe Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices.
Company profile
B. Braun provides the global health care market with products for anaesthesia, intensive medicine, cardiology, extra corporeal blood treatment and surgery, as well as services for hospitals, general practitioners and the home-care sector. For more information, visit: www.bbraunoem.com
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