South Australian business CPIE Pharmacy Services is preparing to trial prototypes of a single use, portable, electronic drug delivery pump specifically designed for the “Hospital in the Home” sector.
CPIE General Manager Andrew Sluggett said the compact pumps would be able to deliver various infusions including antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, post-operative pain relief and rheumatoid arthritis treatments.
He said the CPIE product was on track to be available commercially in the second half of 2017 and would likely sell for between AUD$20 and $50. The company first started looking at developing its own pumps because the electronic and mechanical infusion pumps they were using were not proving effective in the home programs it services for a number of hospitals in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
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