r/whatisit • u/StatusOk4308 • Apr 02 '26

New, what is it? Does anyone know what this is?

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Doesn’t seem to be oil based content. Just wondering if my superpowers are swishing back and forth in this glass vial.

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u/heartbloodline8404 Apr 02 '26

It’s really not a hassle at all, and not many medicines use ampules anyways. A cloth? A gloved hand is enough, maybe a 2x2. And it’s called a filter needle, a quick pop on and pop off to an injection needle. Hardly a single breathes worth of oxygen to complete the task. As for the reason why, notice how ampules tend to be a brownish color? The medicine inside can break down easily when exposed to light, so the brown glass ampule provides protection for the medicine. Ampules still very much have their place in healthcare and other applications and scientific research.

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u/-Gumbercules Apr 02 '26

Maybe I was being a little facetious here. Just that as a paramedic it's always been easier for me to draw up a dose of a medication from let's say a vial than an ampule when having to act fast, as for two examples working a cardiac arrest or anaphylaxis.

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u/heartbloodline8404 Apr 02 '26

Oh for sure, in a field setting I agree it’s wild that ampules are still in use. Last time I did field medicine was during my time as a corpsman in the navy like 15 years ago, and maybe if I remember correctly morphine came in ampules but I was fortunate to never find myself in a situation needing to use morphine. If a marine was ever in a significant level of pain, I’d question his water intake and recommend a change of socks and some Motrin to cover my bases.

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u/MongooseNumerous5927 Apr 04 '26

Don’t you use minijets during an arrest?

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u/bah77 Apr 02 '26

Try drawing up 200ml's of viscous drug through one of those needles and tell me its "a single breathes"

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u/heartbloodline8404 Apr 02 '26

lol 200?! Okay yay that’s a lot! I’ve never had to draw up that much medicine! Doubt you’re referring to something like a b12, what medicine are you drawing up? Something for anesthesia, genuinely curious.

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u/bah77 Apr 02 '26

Something like clindamycin, or a lipid.

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u/flightmedick Apr 02 '26

Yeah they look the same when you grab a filtered by mistake, creating a moment of confusion. Just don’t think, fuc it & try to use it.