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c/reconstitution·posted 1 months ago by u/dilara_szabo

the reconstitution question that gets asked weekly, answered properly

PSA Sourced ×2

dead space. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort dead space out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 4 months. My eGFR was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/viktor_erdogan97 points·1 months ago

Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.

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[deleted]73 points·1 months ago

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u/dilara_szaboOP54 points·1 months ago

Spent 3 weeks confused about concentration math until someone showed me the table. 30mg, 1mL, concentration is 30/1.

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u/dilara_szaboOP38 points·1 months ago

Is that 10mg vial or 22mg?

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u/ahmed_rasmussen56 points·1 months ago

Are you using a u-100 or u-40 syringe? That changes everything.

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u/batch_number_bertievetting26 points·1 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/vial_math_veraMOD74 points·1 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/liv_nkemelu20 points·1 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising.

Adding to this: units is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/yusuf_achebe68 points·1 months ago·edited

Show the arithmetic. Where did the units come from?

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u/anjali_tamm36 points·1 months ago

What was the vial size and how much bac water?

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u/saskia_mwangi11 points·1 months ago·edited

show your working or it is unhelpful

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The arithmetic and the technique. Bacteriostatic versus sterile water, reconstitution volume as a concentration choice, converting mg/mL into insulin-syringe units, dead space, swirl-not-shake, stopper coring, and how long a reconstituted vial is actually good for. Math errors get corrected fast and politely.

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