[PSA] dead space is not what most of this community thinks it is
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: insulin syringe matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 21 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 33 people measuring…
dead space is real and the syringe matters
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with mg/mL, not with what you concluded.
bacteriostatic and sterile water are not interchangeable, do not use them that way
The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial. Stopped all the confusion after that.
The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial.
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 24 weeks to accept.
dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.
Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.