Metabolic
Glucagon
Also called GlucaGen, Baqsimi
per administration
A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.
Licensed as a medicine in the US and EU.
Work out your draw
These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.
- Concentration
- 0.33mg/mL
- Volume per draw
- 1.5mL
- Units to dial
- 150
- Doses per cartridge
- 2
This is 150 units, past the 60-unit dial. Splitting it across administrations, or using less water to raise the concentration, brings it back into range.
Dial range varies by pen; 1–60 units is the common configuration.
Vial label
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Published research contexts for Glucagon describe 0.5–1 mg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.
Roughly 8–18 minutes in plasma; a single dose that clears rather than accumulates.
A licensed medicine given as a single rescue dose to raise blood glucose (also given intramuscularly or as a nasal powder), not on a repeating schedule. Because it is a one-time rescue agent rather than a scheduled compound, no schedule table is shown.
Modelled level — once a week
1× is the peak after a single dose.
- Steady-state peak
- 0.91× single dose
- Time to steady state
- 1hours
- Administrations
- 1/ week
Read off the modelled curve, not an even-interval formula
About five half-lives
Where these numbers come from
- Glucagon (GlucaGen, Baqsimi) labelLicensed as a single rescue dose to raise blood glucose; given subcutaneously, intramuscularly or as a nasal powder, not on a schedule.