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How many units on a low-dead-space syringe is a 2 mg dose at 2 mg/mL?

Asked 6 Nov 2025Modified 9 months agoViewed 12k times
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Stated plainly: a low-dead-space syringe · 2 mg · 2 mg/mL.

The units are where I keep going wrong, so please be explicit about them.

I have sanity-checked the order of magnitude and it seems right, which is not the same as being right.

Is my approach right even if my number is wrong?

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5Are you asking about the arithmetic or the technique? Both are answerable, separately. – kirsi_lahtinen 6 months ago
4Voting to keep this open — it is more specific than it first looks. – tri_gly_ala 4 months ago
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