MacMEQ: a Macintosh HyperCard Program for Nutrition Management of Injections.

Intrahospital sterile preparation of multiple admixtures of injectates and intravenous hyperalimentation (IVH) by pharmacists is now becoming an accepted practice. There appeared to be no software for Macintosh, at least on a publication basis, for calculating nutritional components in the parenteral solutions, while there were some for NEC computers. We therefore developed a nutrition management program of injections (named “MacMEQ” ) under HyperCard on Macintosh personal computers, which cannot only perform the nutritional calculation but can also search solutions under adequate nutritional conditions and find inappropriate combinations of multiple mixtures. This has led to the expectation that, by utilizing MacMEQ, pharmacists can efficiently manage nutritional information of parenteral solutions to ensure the safety of patients.