Converts a vial strength and the volume of water added into the mark on an insulin syringe.
It is arithmetic, not advice: it does not know what you were prescribed and it will never
suggest a dose.
What is in front of you
Draw to
not set
0
Concentration
Barrel
units
That dose is larger than this syringe holds at this concentration. Check the numbers
against what your prescriber told you.
Is that dose in micrograms? 1 mg is 1,000 mcg, and a dose this far over the barrel is
usually a mcg figure entered as mg. Check the label.
strength ÷ water = concentration · dose ÷ concentration = mL · mL × 100 = units. A
dose entered in mcg is divided by 1,000 first. An insulin syringe is marked in units,
and 100 units is 1 mL on every barrel size.
What this is and is not.
It divides a vial strength by a volume and converts the result to syringe units. It does not
store anything, nothing is sent to us, and it is not medical advice. It is not a substitute
for the instructions your prescriber gave you, and it does not tell you whether a compound is
approved. That is on the
reference pages.