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Step 1
Get Your Serostim® [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection] Injection Supplies
 
Step 2
Clean the Work Surface

Step 3
Wash Your Hands
Wash your hands with soap and water. If someone else is giving you the injection, he or she should put on a pair of disposable gloves now.
Reconstitution

Step 4
Remove Flip Tops from Drug and Sterile Water Vials
Remove the flip tops from drug and sterile water vials. Throw the tops away. You can use your regular wastebasket.
Clean both rubber stoppers with a fresh alcohol swab. You can also throw this swab in your regular wastebasket.
Do not touch the vial tops with your hands or gloves.
IF YOU TOUCHED THE VIAL TOPS AFTER CLEANING THEM: Simply use a new alcohol swab to wipe off the vial tops that you touched. Then continue with the next step in the instructions.
 
Step 5
Twist the Larger Needle Onto Syringe
Unwrap the syringe.
Unwrap the larger needle. Do not touch the hub of the needle where it connects to the syringe.
Take the plastic tip protector from the syringe (if it has one).
Hold the syringe by its cap and twist tightly into place on the syringe. Keep the needle cap on as you do this.
IF YOU TOUCH OR DROP THE HUB OF THE NEEDLE OR THE BOTTOM OF THE SYRINGE BEFORE THEY ARE CONNECTED: Dispose of them in your red safety box. Start over with a new needle and syringe.

Step 6
Pull Plunger/Remove Needle Cap
Pull back on the plunger in the syringe until it reaches the 1cc line on the barrel unless your medical provider has designated a different dose.
Keep the needle cap on the needle.
Do not touch the now exposed plunger.
Hold the syringe in one hand. Use your other hand to pull the needle cap straight off the needle (do not twist the cap as you pull).
If the needle and the syringe come apart — and they have not touched anything — simply twist them back together again.
If the needle and/or syringe have touched anything, dispose of them in your red safety box. Then, simply start over again from Step 2.
Set the needle cap aside. You will need it again later. next >>