Hospitals

With a focus on patient, pharmacist, and prescriber, Fagron offers unique hospital solutions that add significant value in the treatment of patients with special needs. Fagron’s just-add-water convenience packs offer the hospital pharmacist convenient and time-saving solutions to help patients while decreasing the possibility of errors. Our convenience packs cover a wide range of treatments from oral suspensions to topical anesthetics. With a global focus on innovation, we are driven to continuously provide pharmacists with the best solutions in compounding.

SyrSpend™ SF

SyrSpend® SF is an innovative vehicle range for the compounding of oral liquid dosage forms. Based on food starch, SyrSpend® SF’s superior suspending properties provide consistent, individual dosing throughout treatment. The excellent compatibility with a broad range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and meticulous ingredient safety make SyrSpend® SF highly suitable for compounding safe and stable customized medication for all patients groups, from neonates to the elderly. The SyrSpend® SF range consists of a ready-to-use liquid vehicle, a preservative-free powder for reconstitution and an alkaline suspending vehicle for acid-unstable APIs.

Benefits of SyrSpend® SF:

• Innovative and highly stable suspensions based on modified food starch
• Formulated using only safe and well-tolerated ingredients
• Optimal palatability and taste-masking properties for
• improved compliance
• Gastrointestinal friendly (osmolality <50 mOsmol/kg)
• Compatibility with a broad range of APIs
• API stability supported by peer-reviewed scientific articles
• Compatible with all enteral feeding tubes
• Active suspending technology

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Raw materials

Fagron offers a wide range of high-quality APIs of pharmaceutical grade (USP/NF/BP/EP), including Monsel's Solution, omeprazole USP powder, DMSO and phenol liquid USP.

Fagron's pharmaceutical raw materials are subjected to a rigorous process of quality tests. The results of these tests and the extensive range of documents Fagron demands from the producers, are reviewed by a qualified person before release. A Certificate of Analysis (CoA) is available for all raw materials and can be found on our website. 

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Compounding Matters formulation database

Fagron is dedicated to supporting pharmacists with extensive compatibility and stability data. Compounding Matters formulation database, a global initiative of Fagron, offers the pharmacist and prescriber a broad range of scientific, evidence-based compounding formulations with step-by-step compounding instructions, packaging information, beyond-use-date data and quality control information. 

Prescribers can find an indication and formulas that suits the personal needs of the patient. Pharmacists can find formulas with the methods of compounding a high-quality preparation. Compounding Matters is available free to all prescribers and pharmacists. Click here to create a free account. 

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