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c/reconstitution·submitted 4 days ago by u/dilara_szabo

foam means you shook it. do not shake it

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking insulin syringe against eGFR for 15 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one…

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u/hedda_adeyemi73 points·2 days ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/santiago_ndiaye50 points·2 days ago·edited

the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step

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u/lurker_for_years15 points·2 days ago

Yeah, showing the arithmetic is the fastest way for someone to spot the error.

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u/dilara_szaboOP28 points·2 days ago

Reconstituted at 2mL when I meant 11mL. Caught it because the units looked wrong. Write the concentration.

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