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Archive for June, 2010



OF PARENTERALS AND PYROSKINETIX: BACTERIAL ENDOTOXIN TESTING (BET), PART II

Published on June 28, 2010

This time around, more about BET (Bacterial Endotoxin Testing) and why we take it so seriously at Hartley Medical Pharmacy. By 2003, as a result of my professional journey through intrathecal drug therapy, I had amassed a great deal more knowledge of and experience with endotoxin testing. I purchased an instrument – PYROSKINETIX – manufactured [...]


OF HARES AND HORSESHOE CRABS: BACTERIAL ENDOTOXIN TESTING (BET), PART I

Published on June 9, 2010

Endotoxins are important to me. In addition to impacting the core function of my chosen field – intrathecal drug therapy — they are a singularly fascinating phenomenon. I take them – and Bacterial Endotoxin Testing (BET) — very seriously.
Endotoxins are small impurities present in bacteria. They are actually sections of bacterial walls – more specifically, [...]