Automated Tablet Dispensing & Packaging System (ATDPS), that is, drug packaging machine, mainly used to realize the inpatient automatic packaging of oral medicines.
Traditional inpatient pharmacy drug dispensing completely dependent on manual operation, often hundreds of drugs arranged in the drug shelf or unpacked stored in the drawer, the packaged drugs all depends on the pharmacist's eyes, hands, brain memory, monotonous action. The pharmacist's attention is required to be highly concentrated, and the slightest inattention will lead to errors.
Full-automatic drug packaging machine by the built-in drug box, external drug box, packaging machine, data display screen composed of several major components, the machine can be stored at the same time up to 30 to 500 different tablets, capsules, basically covering the hospital hospital oral medication varieties.
Full-automatic drug packaging machine is based on the hospital information system transmission of medical advice information, automatically the patient every time to take the drugs into the same bag, that is, according to the single dose packaging. At the same time, according to the doctor's instructions, the packaging date, department, patient's name, medication time, drug name, specification, quantity, bar code and other key information are printed on the bag, so that it is easy for pharmacists and nurses to check and patients to take.
The use of automatic drug dispensers has changed the traditional way of manual dispensing in hospital pharmacies, embodying the characteristics of science, intelligence, high efficiency, safety, accuracy, low pollution, as well as humanization, with simple and straightforward operation and clear and complete information.
Compared with the traditional manual medicine, its advantages are mainly reflected in:
Safety - the application of automatic drug dispenser, the pharmacist is required to carry out the medical records of the doctor's orders audit and prescription review, which can better ensure the safety of clinical medication, reasonable, and to promote the development of the hospital pharmacy; on the other hand, the drug packaging bag On the other hand, the drug bag is printed with basic information related to the patient and the medication according to the requirements of the doctor's orders, i.e., ward number, ward number, bed number, case number, patient's name, date of medication, time of medication, so that the patient understands more intuitively the medication he/she is using, and it is also conducive to the nurses' supervision of the patient's timely use of the medication.
Accurate--Automatic drug packaging machine by the computer and special mechanical devices to accurately control the packaging, so that the accuracy rate of up to 99% or more, to maximize the avoidance of the traditional sub-packaging of medicines due to a variety of reasons and the phenomenon of error.
Highly effective--Manual distribution of drugs, a ward generally takes 20-30 minutes, while the automatic drug dispenser average of 40-60 bags of drugs per minute, a ward can be completed in 4-5 minutes to dispense medication, greatly improving the efficiency of the work, reducing the intensity of the work of the medical staff, so that they can have more time and energy to service to patients.
Health - the traditional process, the pharmacist counts the drugs and the nurse to the drugs, are inevitably contact with the drugs; the use of bare cups, the drugs for a long time in contact with the air, and in the process of taking easy to turn over and fall, which increases the chance of drugs being contaminated, and the automatic drug dispenser using a special plastic bag, in a closed environment, the possibility of drugs being contaminated. Packaging, the possibility of drug contamination is minimized.