Profil Kompatibilitas Sediaan Obat Intravena dengan Pelarut pada Pasien Intensive Care Unit

Compatibility is one of the important factors determining the quality of intravenous (IV) admixtures which may directly impact to the outcome of treatment to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. The objective of this study was to identify the profile of compatibility and incompatibility among IV admixtures given to the ICU patients. This observational research was conducted prospectively to the patients admitted in the ICU at a private hospital in Surabaya from October–December 2014. In this research, compatibility data of IV drug and its solution was compared with drug brochure and Handbook on Injectable Drugs 17th ed (2013) as references to analyze the compatibility of IV admixtures. The admixture between IV drug and its solvent was classified as compatible, incompatible, no information (NI), not applicable (NA), and not clear (NC), using a specific criteria. There were 1.186 IV drug‑solvent admixtures observed in 39 ICU patients. There were no IV drug-solvent admixtures classified as incompatible in both adult and child patients. Most of IV drugs were admixed with compatible solvents (adults: 72.31%; children: 69.84%). However, according to two of IV drugs compatibility references used in this research, there were some IV drug-solvent admixtures with unknown information about its compatibility that were classified as NI (adults: 19.68%; children: 30.16%). There were a few of IV drug-solvent admixtures classified as NA and NC, of 7.48% and 0.53%, respectively. The lack of information related to compatibility and stability of the IV admixtures emphasize the importance to continually monitor patients’ condition and drug concentration