Expired Epinephrine Maintains Chemical Concentration and Sterility.

CONCLUSION: Recurrent epinephrine shortages impact EMS and hospital operations in the United States. Individual administrators may be hesitant to authorize use of expired pharmaceuticals due to perceived potential complications or fear of litigation. This study shows that the original parenteral epinephrine remains sterile and detectably pure more than 2.5 years after expiration. Further study of the sterility and chemical integrity of expired medications that had been subjected to the conditions of EMS vehicles may be a future research endeavor based on the aforementioned paradigm. PMID: 29373043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research