[Discussion] the bacteriostatic water advice in here is 3 years out of date
the bacteriostatic water advice in here is 3 years out of date. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 3 years. Everything below is context for those. Aim the stream down the wall of the vial rather than into the…
Yes. Writing 5mg/mL on the vial takes four seconds and removes the entire class of error this board exists to fix.
Pushback on the syringe advice: a U-100 barrel reads units of volume. Calling them "doses" is how the confusion starts.
units are a volume on a U-100 syringe, not a dose
What concentration did you actually reconstitute at, rather than what did you intend to?
What concentration did you actually reconstitute at, rather than what did you intend to?
This is the sentence that makes the rest unnecessary. Write it on the vial and the problem is gone.
more water is not more drug, it is the same drug in a bigger volume