Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for handling and dispensing dose medication pouches, where the dose medication pouches are stored in cassettes for dose medication pouches, and the apparatus includes: a control system for administration of data relating to storage location, drugs and use-by dates of the dose medication pouches, as well as for controlling functions of the apparatus; a drug cabinet including storage locations provided for the cassettes of dose medication pouches and extending through the drug cabinet from a filling side to a dispensing side; indicators on the filling side of the drug cabinet for controlling the filling of the cassettes of dose medication pouches; a collector on the dispensing side of the drug cabinet configured to collect the dose medication pouches from the cassettes of dose medication pouches placed in the storage locations according to the data relating to the storage location, the drugs and the use-by dates; and a dispensing station, to which, the collector is configur

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for using a medical syringe, in which method the medical syringe comprises a cylinder part with retaining lugs or a retaining flange and a needle, and a plunger part which is movable within the cylinder part by moving the plunger rod extending outside the cylinder part with respect to the cylinder part, and the method comprising moving the plunger part with respect to the cylinder part by at least one industrial robot either outwards for drawing liquid into the medical syringe or inwards for injecting the liquid out of the medical syringe. In the method according to the invention, the plunger part is gripped with a gripper configured to prevent the plunger part from turning with respect to the gripper. The invention also relates to an apparatus for using a medical syringe, and a method and an apparatus for dissolving a pharmaceutical substance in a liquid by utilizing the method according to the invention for using a medical syringe.