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c/reconstitution·posted 10 months ago by u/elin_ferrari

[Discussion] concentration is doing more work than we give it credit for

Discussion Well Actually ×1 Slow Clap ×2 Long Haul ×3

The title is the argument: concentration is doing more work than we give it credit for. Here is the rest of it.

Asked JEEP what volume they reconstitute to for their own stability testing and they answered in one line. Useful thing to know.

Started reconstituting everything to a round concentration and the six-in-the-morning error rate went to zero.

The dead space question sent me down a rabbit hole for a week. It is a fraction of a unit and it is the same every draw.

That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.

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u/georgi_adebayo621 points·10 months ago

The lyophilised cake displaces a small volume, so the true concentration is very slightly lower than the arithmetic suggests. It is a fraction of a percent and it is dwarfed by fill tolerance.

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u/vial_math_veraMOD323 points·10 months ago

Left up and flaired Explainer — the numbers in this one check out.

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u/piotr_bruun243 points·10 months ago

if the maths gives you a fraction of a unit, change the concentration

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u/vito_beaulieu291 points·10 months ago

Yes, and the dead-space point is worth repeating: it is small, it is real, and it is the same for every draw.

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u/kavya_radich-12 points·10 months ago

Spent 10 weeks confused about this until somebody drew the table for me. 5mg, 2mL, 2.5mg/mL, 0.25mg is 10 units. That is the whole thing.

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·10 months ago

Small fix — a U-100 syringe is 100 units per mL. If yours is marked differently it is not U-100 and the whole calculation changes.

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