Innovative Device to Improve Safety of Preparing and Administering Chemotherapy

? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Manual drug compounding of chemotherapy medications permits deadly dosing errors and toxic drug exposure and therefore poses unnecessary risks to patients and healthcare professionals. Some robotic compounding devices have been developed in response; however, poor drug containment safety capabilities and prohibitive cost and size have limited widespread adoption of existing compounding devices. Corvida Medical has developed a novel disposable closed system drug transfer device (CSTD) to protect health care workers from toxic exposure to hazardous drugs used in cancer treatments. During Phase II, the Corvida RandD team has completed further validation studies to show the Corvida CSTD meets the NIOSH and USP definition of a CSTD, and validated our device against ISO standards and most FDA requirements. Corvida has also developed an innovative compounding device that overcomes the safety, cost, and size limitations of existing compounding devices. At a fraction of the siz