2024-08-07
How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial?
Multi-dose vials are more likely to become contaminated compared to single-dose vials, and therefore require important injection safety actions.“Multi-dose vials are more likely to get dirty because you’re putting a needle into that bottle many times to pull out each dose for each separate vaccine,” said Dr. Abigail Carlson, an infectious diseases physician with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), as part of CDC Project Firstline’s Inside Infection Control video series.If the vial gets dirty, contaminated, or past the beyond-use date, it will have to be thrown away because it can harm patients.