Do your facilities still use a lot of these drugs? If so, what are you using them for? OR irrigations?

Thanks!

City, State: Teaching hospital

Years as a Buyer: 2

We still use Baciim. I couldn't tell you the last time we ordered the other. The Baciim goes to the OR Floor stock.

Name of Facility: Arnot Ogden Medical Center

City, State: Acute Care 256 beds

Years as a Buyer: 7

We are using Kanamycin

Name of Facility: DELNOR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Years as a Buyer: 4

We use a lot of Kanamycin, as well as a fair amount of Baciim. Both are loaded in OR Pyxis machines.

Name of Facility: PORTER

City, State: acute care

Years as a Buyer: 9+

Our hospital uses this product like water in our OR for irrigations. We order at least 150 vials per week

Years as a Buyer: 17 as buyer 34 as tech

We do also Ruth...

We are actually looking for an in with the orthopods (they're the primary ones ordering) to show them that evidence-based practice shows that it doesn't do any good.

We're spending $75k per year just on the meds, that doesn't include the irrigation soln, bottle, tech time, etc.

There was an article published in the mid-80s I'm hunting down now about it....

City, State: Teaching hospital

Years as a Buyer: 2

Ruth, Would you please share with me the info you find.Our surgeons are using a soln that is 50,000units of bacitracin and 10,000,000 polymixin then the other soln also adds 1gm of neomycin, both solns are in 1000ml sterile water.
Thanks,
Lisa

Name of Facility: Armstrong County Memorial Hospital

City, State: Community Hospital

Years as a Buyer: 2 years as buyer 15yrs as a tech