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Sometimes, the patients are neonates or infants, and to administer an oral drug in neonates or infants is not easy. Sometimes, the patients simply cannot swallow. Because of this, a good option is to create extemporaneous preparations for those cases. An oncology pharmacist is the professional who is able to do this, with prescription from a pediatric oncologist physician, using the specific chemotherapy vertical flow equipment [3].
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Schmidt, C.W.P. (2019). Handling Pediatric Extemporaneous Oral Solutions with Chemotherapy. In: Pediatric Oncologic Pharmacy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10988-2_10
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