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Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?

Adele Graham-King, Blogger, 22/05/13 Comment now

While considering packaging issues related to emergency drug delivery devices, I recently came across a new app that simulates adrenaline delivery.

Latest comment This is true - on both points. And I think that if even one life can be saved because someone 'had seen it somewhere before' it must...

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Agnes Shanley, Editor-in-Chief, 20/05/13 Comment now

And now for the second article in the brief "technology of tomorrow" series...

Latest comment I agree with the authors of this article. Six-sigma should be more stringently applied in pharma to improve quality.

Can Simulation Take Drug Development Into the Future?

Agnes Shanley, Editor-in-Chief, 20/05/13 Comment now

At a time when some drug manufacturers still stumble on relatively simple concepts such as loading the correct amount of active ingredient in their formulations (something that may result in criminal charges for J&J executives in South ...

Latest comment I can understand why biologicals would be more difficult to tablet under extreme compression and temperature condictions. How does...

Making New Drugs, Not Patients, the Guinea Pigs

Agnes Shanley, Editor-in-Chief, 16/05/13 Comment now

In traditional clinical medicine, patients are guinea pigs for new drugs. The risk of adverse -- or no -- effects is the price we pay for the potential of receiving treatment. But for those with terminal illnesses, even this risk is out ...

Latest comment I think that this could potentially provide interesting opportunities for terminally ill patients as so often they feel out of control...

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Who is advancing a smarter approach to pharma, and who isn't? Here's a look at those who have spurred positive change, and those who haven't.

Latest comment Fascinating (and disturbing) interview with Ranbaxy whistleblower on Pharmalot. Apparently, corporate whistleblowers in India...

Improving APIs & Formulation: Are You Harnessing the Power of Liquids?

Girish Malhotra, President & Founder, Epcot International, 14/05/13 Comment now

Liquids are an essential part of our planet. Imagine our landscape and lives without them. We may take them for granted, but liquids play an important role in the reactive processes that produce small molecule active pharmaceutical ...

Latest comment This is a good review of basic solvent chemistry. I wonder how many industry professsionals are, in fact. "harnessing the power of...

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Agnes Shanley 5/23/2013 12:04:46 PM
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Who wrote this SOP anyway?

Adele Graham-King 5/23/2013 2:59:10 AM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Re: What will they think of next?:
This is true - on both points. And I think that if even one life can be saved because someone 'had seen it somewhere before' it must be worth having.

netterjr 5/22/2013 7:20:27 PM
Can Simulation Take Drug Development Into the Future?
Biologicals:
I can understand why biologicals would be more difficult to tablet under extreme compression and temperature condictions. How does the industry get around these challenges?

netterjr 5/22/2013 7:07:40 PM
In-Silico Drug Development: A Must-Read Paper
Shoddy quality:
I agree with the authors of this article. Six-sigma should be more stringently applied in pharma to improve quality.

netterjr 5/22/2013 6:41:39 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
What will they think of next?:
It seems there is an app for everything nowadays! But seriously, i wonder if this app would be helpful in instructing non-medical personnel to administer adrenaline. That would really save lives.

Emil W. Ciurczak 5/22/2013 6:24:28 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Digital Adrenaline:
That approach sounds too logical to ever catch on. Seriously, people learn in three ways: visual, auditory, and kinetic. That is some can learn from demos, some from spoken instruction, and others actually HAVE to do a manual experiment. A combination will usually work for all three...the...

Cathy McGeary 5/22/2013 6:16:28 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Re: Digital Adrenaline:
Emil, I'm so glad you said that before I did! Unfortunately we don't seem to have such a thing anymore - without reasonable tort reform, lawsuits have effectively stopped, and in some cases, seem to reverse a Darwinian effect. Now it's "do something stupid, have a jury award...

Emil W. Ciurczak 5/22/2013 4:58:32 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Digital Adrenaline:
The "up side" would be Darwinian: thinning of the herd (and gene pool?).

Adele Graham-King 5/22/2013 4:54:54 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Re: Digital Adrenaline:
Emil I know where you are coming from and yes! - Human behaviour is completely unpredictable... And as we say so often - we never do what we are supposed to do. I suspect that you could guarantee that even if you made a 'dummy' pen day-glo' green with spikes on it, someone, somewhere...

Emil W. Ciurczak 5/22/2013 4:45:34 PM
Digital Adrenaline: Can An App Be Effective in Drug Delivery Training?
Digital Adrenaline:
Adele, waaaay back in 1970-1, when we were first looking at selling product in plastic bottles, we found that plastic caps tended to "creep." That is, not long after you torque a cap down, the plastic creeps or flows to remove the strain, making the cap loose. Since that could lead...

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