Drawing Up Injectable Medications

Learn from Technician Training Specialist Jessica Waters-Miller, CVT, how to safely draw medication from a vial.

*It's important to remember that recapping of needles should be avoided whenever possible.

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[Charles]

Don't forget to change your needle before giving to a patient.

[robguderyan]

In Canada where i am, you use a different needle to withdraw the medication, after you've done your safety checks and 1st set of rights. Also you hold the needle cover in the other hand and carefully put it back on. You withdraw the medication just a bit out of the drawing needle, change the tip and then push back up slightly until you see just a little pop out of the needle.

[joycebliefernich]

You forgot to displace 0.5 ml of air into the bottle with the syringe before withdrawing the amount of liquid of 0.5 ml. If you do not push air into the bottle by the same amount that you will be withdrawing, then eventually, you will create a vacuum and will not be able to get any more liquid out of the bottle.

[lucastostes]

i heard you have to draw up .5ml of air to add back into the bottle after drawing up your .5ml of medication. is this correct?

[carolnikolov]

I thought you pulled back sure to amount and then after putting in vile you inject the air before pulling the med in?

[robguderyan]

We do some of the other stuff the same as her. We also dont hold the vial in the hand as we draw it up (how they teach it in school, different in my hospital/hospitals, depending on the nurse in the hospital tho)

[MentionedBefore]

As a professional heroin addict, I didn't know this was possible and so easy to do! I usually take a canoodle and spring jack the cap of the vial to extract the good stuff and then I reverse adjust the perpendicular vein towards the canoodle for injection via semi-conducting acupuncture. 👋😎🖖

[r.l]

Wait what about the part where you inject are to ease the vacuum?

[AmericanBusinessman]

Do syringes account for the dead space in the nozzle and needle?

[dikembe]

Liquid does not leave the vial. :Any tips?

[tonyfffuuu]

what if you're drawing air and it's throwing off your measurement

[tonganmami]

Wow in australia we are never allowed to recap…Nor do we draw drugs with a needle we use vial access cannula…different to other countries…

[TheDoctormiguel]

I starting to doubt myself when learning how to mix medication (powder and liquid) and draw the mixed medication with a syringe....either I insert/inject too much air or too little....I am going nuts as in crazy?

[MandyPeach]

I’ve seen some nurses not clean the top with alcohol or wear gloves

[reuben]

Scoop technique nope, there’s never a good reason to re-sheath your needle. You just remove your needle from the syringe by the hub and place it into a sharps bin. Plus you shouldn’t have the medication vial in your hand when inserting the needle, that’s how you get a needle stick, you un-sheath the needle and insert it into the vial while it’s still on the table.

[milliesadielucy]

Air or no air before getting into vial.
Change needle out to a different one prior to administering. Hmm

[Yukito]

So I thought the silver metal band around the rubber cork was some child lock. I removed that metal film with a knife and now the rubber cork/stopper doesnt stay on the vial, meaning I cant tip it upside down to draw or it'll spill. Ahhh, think I might have contaminated the entite vial by exposing it to air and touching the rubber piece all over but that shit was $600 so I'll have to draw it another way and hope for the best 🤷🏻