The Testudo: Medication Safety from BD Global Solutions

The Testudo: Medication Safety from BD Global Solutions

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The Testudo: Medication Safety from BD Global Solutions episodes

  • Automating Outpatient Pharmacy Patient Care 1: Robots as Cobots
    In Episode 14 Dipak, Alice and James discuss robot dancing, robot pharmacies, things that robots should be doing instead of pharmacists, and the things that pharmacists could be doing if they're not picking medications and stocking shelves. Samuel Garcia drops in with a musical interlude and listeners are welcome to send us videos of their favorite body popping moves.

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    27 min
  • Pump It Up!: How We Go About Designing Infusion Pumps
    In Episode 16 we discover what keeps our special guest host, Stuart Rolt, awake at night (Spoiler: It's infusion pump design...), we learn how to build an infusion pump from scratch from our special guest Richard Bailey, James has a horrific flashback to night shifts in the 1990s, and Samuel Garcia wishes you a White Xmas with his easy listening version of a classic...

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    34 min
  • That Robot Isn’t Coming for your job
    In Episode 15 James confesses that he tried (and failed) to get AI to write the podcast's script, Dipak and James tell us all about what happens when pharmacy graduates see a robot pharmacy for the first time, Alice digs into what pharmacists can do when released by automation from non-valued-added tasks, and Samuel Garcia swings by with a tune...

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    25 min
  • Target Controlled Infusion Anaesthesia: An Introduction
    We bring in the New year 2025 with an introduction to Target Controlled Infusion Anaesthesia, so we encourage you to look into our eyes, not feel sleepy, and experience a restful trip through the fundamentals of TCI, the TCI models in current use, and the physiology and pharmacokinetics underpinning the technique.

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    23 min
  • A Deeper Dive into Hospital Medication Management.
    Join us as we dive ever deeper into Medication Managmeent Automation for Safety and Efficiency, we take trips to Jeddah and Milan to to review two superb studies and we get to look at Pounds, Pennies, Euros, Riyals and Dollars. Join Samuel Garcia, Tina Worth, Dipak Duggal and James Waterson for chat, music, poor qulaity jokes and Irish slang...

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    35 min
  • The Back Room Boys? Intravenous Medication Compounding
    We take a first look at the pressures of meeting the needs of the hospital for intravenous medications compounding for both oncology and for batching. We add a Dipak Duggal as a 4th host, Samuel Garcia summons the seventh cavalry with a bugle call and we discover that Tina Worth really hates poetry...

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    29 min
  • Starting out with Automatic Dispensing Cabinets
    On the show today we are joined once again by the amazing Dipak Duggal as we learn about the fundamentals of Automated Dispensing Cabinets and how they can radically change medication management across the hospital. James Waterson teaches us how to say 'a face that needs a slap' in German and Tina Worth decides that there's more than one member of the team that really needs a slap... meanwhile Samuel Garcia shocks Beethoven fans all over the globe, and we tell the world's worst nursing jokes.  

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    29 min
  • Alarm Fatigue and Fixes?

    There are about 50 steps from medication warehouse to administration- Linking Shields means ensuring every step is safe, efficient and links to the next: Think Swiss Cheese, FMEA, or Eating an Elephant- it's huge but we aim to make it digestible!

    Today we look at the issue of alarm fatigue, and how we can help mitigate against it.

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    41 min

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