Two-container system for mixing medicament with diluent including safety wand to protect against improper titration

摘要

An improved diluent container having a small elongated wand (made of plastic or similar material), designed to secure a drug vial cap in place and simultaneously obstruct an I.V. port in a diluent bag similar to an ADD-VANTAGE flexible diluent container. The device is actuated by grasping a gripper ball portion located approximately midway down the wand shaped plug from outside the I.V. bag and removing the vial cap end from the discharge opening between the vial, holding medicament, and the flexible diluent container. Once the vial capped end is removed, the medicament enters the diluent and is mixed by shaking or squeezing the flexible diluent container while maintaining the other end of the wand in the I.V. port. The device has a length which is designed so that the end of the wand shaped plug cannot be removed from the I.V. port of the flexible diluent container until the end blocking the drug vial has been removed from that opening. This thereby prevents the inadvertent administration of I.V. fluid without the medicament being thoroughly described and mixed in the fluid.