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by retSava 3582 days ago
EMTs are not the target customer of epipens. They work with life-threatening situations day after day. To a kindergarten teacher, if a child if having an anaphylactic chock, this is very far from a "very slight increase in complexity".

Just to ground the situation, the kindergarten teachers at my daughters place are already freaked out from the thought of having to administer an epipen. I can't even start to imagine how they would handle a syringe and a bottle.

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There are thousands of people out there who carry IM Glucagon kits, an similarly time sensitive medication, intended to be administered by untrained bystanders. If it works for Glucagon, I see no reason it can't work for Epinephrine. In reality, there's no need for a vial, the syringe can be prefilled with the correct dose.