Introduction:

The good results of home intravenous therapy, the greater complexity of patients and the increase in hospital pressure cause that every time the technical requirements on it are more demanding.

Method:

Of all drugs, a search was carried out in order using MESH terms searching: [“drug” and stability], [“drug” and storage], [“drug” and solvent].

Results:

This article details the critical technical aspects when considering a home intravenous antibiotic therapy strategy: antimicrobials (antibiotics, antifungals and antivirals) candidates to be administered at home intravenously in an inpatient in charge of a home hospitalization service are reviewed: the candidate drugs, the concentration to be administered, the minimum infusion times, storage conditions, maximum stability, the most frequent compatible solvents and the vascular access in which we should administer according to the physicochemical properties of the drug, the delivery device and the expected duration of treatment.

Conclusions:

It is essential when considering a home antibiotic intravenous therapy that the drugs are correctly conditioned and selected.

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