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AssigneeThorne Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC
InventorsGale Harrison Thorne, Jr., Gale Harrison Thorne
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A convenience kit being formed by a pair of associated sub-kits which provide capability for bench-top medicine prescription compounding without need for clean room surroundings or such protective equipment as laminar flow hoods. The sub-kits include an exterior sub-kit which provides for access, volumetric measurement and compounding of medicine derived from vials and an enclosing sub-kit housed within a plastic bag which provides a sterile environment for filling a medical treatment vessel for use. The two sub-kits are joined together and communicate by bag entry technology to provide a system which not only protects and, in some cases, provides product sterility, but also assures full containment of all fluid being used in a medical preparation.
Single use, completely enclosing convenience kits used for compounding medicine, selected from a group of convenience kits comprising sub-kits which sterilize medicine capable of being sterilized by filtration and sub-kits used for compounding raw medicine which should not be sterilized by filtration but which are compounded without degrading sterilization levels, such convenience kits being provided for compounding raw medicine provided in at least one pre-filled vial which is provided separately, each such kit, being pre-sterilized for use, providing safety via totally enclosed fluid communicating pathways for delivering and compounding medicine, each of said convenience kits comprising an exterior sub-kit for accessing, measuring and displacing fluids in a compounding process and an enclosing sub-kit for providing a closed, sterile housing for a vessel which is filled with a prescribed dose of compounded medicine, provided via a securely affixed, absolutely closed pathway from said exterior sub-kit for use in patient treatment.
A convenience kit comprising an exterior sub-kit for displacing and communicating fully contained fluids from medicine containing source containers to an enclosing sub-kit housed in a closed plastic bag in which at least one pre-sterilized medicine container is disposed for being filled and capped before being accessed from said plastic bag to thereby provide finally compounded medicine for use, with resultant user safety and predetermined product SAL, said enclosed compounded medicine preparation process and product meeting regulatory requirements of USP 797 and USP 800 for compounding of such medical preparations.
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