Will Ampoule Glass Shard Get Injected #shorts

Will the glass shards produced by snapping the ampule fall into the medication and be injected into the body? Generally speaking, the needle hole of the syringe for injection is relatively small, so larger glass fragments cannot be sucked in. Of course, the safest method is to use a disposable infusion filter, which can filter out most of the glass shards.
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[ec]

They don't grind it. You snap them open by hand, remove the solution with a filtered needle, then use another needle to inject
Edit because I think people think I am: I am not a medical professional; doctor, nurse, or otherwise.

[blueberrymcphuckerson]

OK, ICU RN here.

1. We don't grind anything. These are designed to snap easily when needed. What you do is a little trick where you use an alcohol-swab packet like a little hat for the ampoule to protect your finger and snap it. No before grinding needed.

2. First, we suck up the medicine into the syringe via a fat red-cap needle called a Filter-Needle. This helps us suck up the medication into the syringe while ensuring microscopic pieces of glass stay out and inside the needle. Think of like grounded-coffee staying behind inside the coffee-filter paper while the delicious coffee-liquid goes inside the pot/cup.

3. We replace the Filter-Needle with the needle we are gonna actually use depending on the site (skin, fat, muscle, etc.). This ends with a syringe full of medication glass-free and attached to a freshly brand-new needle that hasn't even been removed from its needle-cap yet.

That's how it's done. No extra BS.

[TheRealdal]

I’m a nurse over 30 years. Nobody grinds an ampule, you snap it at the neck and use a filter needle to pull up the medication.

[no_name_needed]

As a pharmacy technician, when using glass ampules when compounding medication, we ALWAYS use a filter needle, with a filter of 0.22 microns to make sure no glass gets into the syringe, and then change the needle before injecting into the IV or whatever solution we're making

[VilliageSquidiot]

For those wondering because i wondered too: Some medications need to be sealed like this because they may be unstable. Sealing them in glass pretty much ensures they'll only interract with the inert gasses that allow them to stablize until they're ready for use.

[brandonbouvier]

“MOST of the glass shards” well that clears my mind thanks

[rox]

EMT here: For years we snapped the ampules without a grinder or desinfectant. We often even didn't use needles or any filter to suck in the medication... And guess what: Nobody got hurt by glass shards. The shards have to be even smaller than the hole of the needle which I inserted into your vein 30 seconds ago to get into your body at all. The body handles this easily.

[trinomial-nomenclature]

I'm a Pharmacy Technician and after we break open ampules, we attach a special needle to the syringe (although they look no different) which has a filter inside. The filter stops any glass from being drawn into the syringe, however, when we go to inject the medication, we attach a new filter needle in the off chance that any glass made it past the first filter and into the syringe, that filter will catch whatever made it through (if anything at all) while the medication is being injected.

Also, we don't score the ampules with a "grinding wheel" (we don't even have those in a pharmacy), we just simply snap them off. Most ampules used in a pharmacy come from the manufacturer either already scored or weakened at the neck.

[ClampsBert]

Former nurse, never in my life did I grind the ampule first. You just snap it by hand, it breaks way more cleanly by hand anyway, preventing those big shards shown in the video.

[jocopowell]

Thanks for all the likes and replies. :p

[DevinZA]

African medic here. Personally never seen or heard of this special filter needle. We just break the amp and draw it in one hypodermic needle then give into IV or change hypodermic for IM. Unless I'm incredibly missing something. 😂

[RR]

What a relief. The filter prevents *_MOST_* of the broken glass from entering the syringe. And here I was worrying about glass being injected directly into my veins like a sucker.

[IIlvllI]

This is inaccurate, you use a filter needle, not an injection in line filter to mediate this issue.

[remywinchester]

As a nurse. If a glass ampule is used, we're required to use a filter needle to keep the shards from entering the body. Mostly we use the vials with rubber stoppers now, but the glass ones are still safe with a filter.

[gelvax]

New fear unlocked: Microglass floating in my body 💀

[kingelvis]

The blue dot on the ampule is where you break the neck by applying pressure away from the dot. A vial with a dot means it already has a break point on the opposite side, so no grind necessary!

[pewpew]

A lot of this video is just comment bait.

No, you don’t need a ‘grinding wheel’ to open an ampoule, they have a weakspot formed into the glass.

When working with snap off ampoules, we use a “Drawing Up Needle”, which has a filter inside of it.

[juans]

We use a special filter needle that is designed just for these ampules. Its called a five micron filter needle. 5 microns is the size of a red blood cell.

[josephsnyder]

I work in pharmacy as a tech and worked in a hospital for 4 years and have compounded IVs for 3 of those 4 years. You snap them using something called and “ampule breaker” or by hand using an alcohol wipe. You usually snap them away from you just to be safe.

We use two filter needles to get the solution out. 1st one is used to get the fluid out of the amp then we replace the first needle with another filter needle. The 2nd needle is used to inject fluid into the IV.

Nurses in my hospital rarely needed to use amps outside of our emergency room when they needed to compound their own Vitamin-K drips during an emergency. Their protocol may be different, but at our hospital, they use the same filter needles as our pharmacy did.

The filter in the needle stop any glass from getting into the syringe, and the 2nd needle we use to inject the drug into an IV bad is a safety precaution to ensure no glasses shards go into the bag,

I know this video is old, but felt like sharing 🤷‍♀️

[maverickscott]

“Most of the glass shards” well that’s reassuring