Oxytocin: taking the heat
Hodgins, S.
Global Health Science and Practice 2(3): 259-260
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 2169-575X PMID: 25276584 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-14-00102Document Number: 622993
Oxytocin-in-Uniject satisfied the standards of its temperature-time indicator (TTI) in severe home storage conditions, although that required resupply every 30 days-a logistically onerous programmatic standard. Possible advances include: (1) incorporating TTIs with packaged batches of less expensive and more widely used conventional vials of oxytocin; (2) using TTIs calibrated more closely to the actual temperature sensitivity of oxytocin; and (3) researching whether a lower dose of oxytocin would be equally efficacious in preventing postpartum hemorrhage.