Stability of Extemporaneously Compounded Clonidine in Glass and Plastic Bottles and Plastic Syringes
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Abstract
Stability of Extemporaneously Compounded Clonidine in Glass and Plastic Bottles and Plastic SyringesClonidine suspensions to attenuate opioid withdrawal symptoms in children require low doses and dilute concentrations. 1 To the authors' knowledge, only one study on the stability of clonidine 0.01 mg/L suspensions (in OraBlend vehicle) has been published.2 The purpose of the current study was to evaluate whether extemporaneously prepared clonidine suspensions (0.010 mg/mL) are physically and chemically stable in other commercially available vehicles, specifically Oral Mix and Oral Mix SF, at 25°C and 4°C for up to 91 days.Stock clonidine suspensions (0.010 mg/mL) were prepared by crushing commercially available clonidine 0.1-mg tablets (Novopharm, Toronto, Ontario; lot 35204900A, expiry October 2015) in Oral Mix and Oral Mix SF (Medisca Inc, Plattsburgh, New York; lot 1074/A, expiry February 2015; lot 1071/A, expiry January 2015, respectively).Each suspension was divided among 6 amber glass bottles (Richards Distribution, Richmond, British Columbia), 6 amber polyethylene terephthalate bottles (Richards Distribution) and twenty-five 5-mL amber oral plastic syringes (PreciseDose Dispenser System, Medisca Inc; lot 46959/C).For each suspension, 3 glass and 3 plastic bottles were kept at 25°C and 3 glass and 3 plastic bottles at 4°C.All syringes were kept at 25°C.All samples were visually examined for colour, taste, odour, and ease of resuspension at time of preparation, every week up to 21 days, and then every 2 weeks up to 91 days.On each study day, one aliquot (3 mL) from each bottle and the contents of 3 syringes from each group were collected to determine pH.Immediately thereafter, 1.5-mL sample aliquots from each bottle or syringe were transferred to airtight polypropylene freezer vials (VWR International, Mississauga, Ontario) and stored at -85°C until analysis by a validated, stability-indicating high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) -ultraviolet detection method.Stock solutions (0.010 mg/mL) were prepared in HPLCgrade water (Fisher Scientific, Whitby, Ontario; lot 131258) from clonidine hydrochloride powder (Sigma-Aldrich, Oakville, Ontario; lot 110M1256V).Lidocaine (Alveda Pharmaceuticals Inc, Toronto, Ontario; lot 30399, expiry September 2016) diluted in HPLC-grade water (to 0.050 mg/mL) served as the internal standard.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".