The Testudo: Medication Safety from BD Global Solutions

Automating Outpatient Pharmacy Patient Care 1: Robots as Cobots

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:51:32 GMT

In Episode 14 Dipak, Alice and James discuss robot dancing, robot pharmacies, things that robots should be doing instead of pharmacists, and the things that pharmacists could be doing if they're not picking medications and stocking shelves. Samuel Garcia drops in with a musical interlude and listeners are welcome to send us videos of their favorite body popping moves.

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Pump It Up!: How We Go About Designing Infusion Pumps

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:50:44 GMT

In Episode 16 we discover what keeps our special guest host, Stuart Rolt, awake at night (Spoiler: It's infusion pump design...), we learn how to build an infusion pump from scratch from our special guest Richard Bailey, James has a horrific flashback to night shifts in the 1990s, and Samuel Garcia wishes you a White Xmas with his easy listening version of a classic...

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That Robot Isn’t Coming for your job

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:02:17 GMT

In Episode 15 James confesses that he tried (and failed) to get AI to write the podcast's script, Dipak and James tell us all about what happens when pharmacy graduates see a robot pharmacy for the first time, Alice digs into what pharmacists can do when released by automation from non-valued-added tasks, and Samuel Garcia swings by with a tune...

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Target Controlled infusion Anaesthesia: A Masterclass

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:29:00 GMT

We greet our special guest professor Stefan Schragg, and he talks us through the practical use of Target Controlled Infusion Anaesthesia in the Operating Room.

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Target Controlled Infusion Anaesthesia: An Introduction

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:00:52 GMT

We bring in the New year 2025 with an introduction to Target Controlled Infusion Anaesthesia, so we encourage you to look into our eyes, not feel sleepy, and experience a restful trip through the fundamentals of TCI, the TCI models in current use, and the physiology and pharmacokinetics underpinning the technique.

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A Deeper Dive into Hospital Medication Management.

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:44:05 GMT

Join us as we dive ever deeper into Medication Managmeent Automation for Safety and Efficiency, we take trips to Jeddah and Milan to to review two superb studies and we get to look at Pounds, Pennies, Euros, Riyals and Dollars. Join Samuel Garcia, Tina Worth, Dipak Duggal and James Waterson for chat, music, poor qulaity jokes and Irish slang...

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The Back Room Boys? Intravenous Medication Compounding

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:40:19 GMT

We take a first look at the pressures of meeting the needs of the hospital for intravenous medications compounding for both oncology and for batching. We add a Dipak Duggal as a 4th host, Samuel Garcia summons the seventh cavalry with a bugle call and we discover that Tina Worth really hates poetry...

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Starting out with Automatic Dispensing Cabinets

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:23:27 GMT

On the show today we are joined once again by the amazing Dipak Duggal as we learn about the fundamentals of Automated Dispensing Cabinets and how they can radically change medication management across the hospital. James Waterson teaches us how to say 'a face that needs a slap' in German and Tina Worth decides that there's more than one member of the team that really needs a slap... meanwhile Samuel Garcia shocks Beethoven fans all over the globe, and we tell the world's worst nursing jokes.

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The Problems of Traditional Pharmacy and Medication Management

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:17:33 GMT

We dig into the pressures of managing medications across the hospital with our special guest Dipak Duggal.

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Alarm Fatigue and Fixes?

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:15:15 GMT

Today we look at the issue of alarm fatigue, and how we can help mitigate against it.

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Connecting Up: Speeding Up

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:11:03 GMT

There are about 50 steps from medication warehouse to administration- Linking Shields means ensuring every step is safe, efficient and links to the next: Think Swiss Cheese, FMEA, or Eating an Elephant- it's huge but we aim to make it digestible! In this episode we look at how networking smart IV-pumps can speed up the medication safety quality cycle, how networking assists biomedical departments in keeping pump libraries updated and look at two case studies where networking allowed for more complete data across facilities, how ‘forcing functions’ work, and how richer data can help with planning human approaches to medication safety.

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What is Continuous Quality Improvement for IV Medication Safety?

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:07:20 GMT

In this, our fourth Scutum, we look at the data that comes out of smart pumps: How this data is generated from 'Good Saves', from hard and soft limits, from different profiles from all over the hospital and how this CQI data helps us look into the dark corners, at workarounds, and how our risk management system can raise staff up.

So, come along with us and help us and celebrate good saves!

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Back in The Box for IV Medication Safety

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:04:35 GMT

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We promised you sunshine and fresh air... and if medication management solutions, patient safety successes and 'good catches' are your idea of sunshine and fresh air then this is the episode for you, in this, our third Scutum or episode, we look deeper into Dose Error Reduction Software, smart pump datasets, and how build for success in IV medication risk managment!

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Out of the Box IV Medication Safety

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:01:37 GMT

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In this, our second Scutum or episode, we look at how Dose Error Reduction Software works, how we can build strong IV medication libraries and how convenience can equal compliance.

We start to celebrate successes and 'good catches' and look at how risk management systems can raise us up!

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The Estonia Job

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:35:26 GMT

In this episode we welcome a special guest Alice Dainty, a 'compounding supremo' to take us through how automation and re-engineering of intravenous medication compounding can be achieved, there's more poerty, James gets ghosted by the Pope and the Dalai Lama, and Samuel's trumpet goes missing, creating a mystery that may involve Dipak, Tina, and lovers of music everywhere.

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Why Testudo? What does medication safety mean today?

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:22:00 GMT

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In this, our first EVER episode we look at the size of the problem. We look into the dark corners, at workarounds, at how the system can either raise you up or pull you down. We look at every part of the medication chain (well maybe not every part...) We'll give some scary numbers, tell tales of data and personal experiences of medication error, and think about the second victim.

And if this all seems a bit dark... then don't worry sunshine and fresh air is coming in subsequent episodes as we look at medication management solutions, celebrate successes and 'good catches' and look at risk management systems that raise us up!

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