Safety vial-handler tool and method

A method for using a safety vial-handler tool having:

• a vial plate superimposed rotatably on a shield plate;
• a plurality of vial orifices in the vial plate positioned at a common radius from a rotational axis of the vial plate;
• each vial orifice having a different diameter sized to contain a vial with a desired diameter;
• a shield orifice in the shield plate positioned at a radial distance from the rotational axis of the vial plate that is equal to the common radius of the plurality of vial orifices from the rotational axis of the vial plate on the shield plate;
• the shield orifice being sized to receive a vial having the largest diameter that is fittable into a vial orifice having the largest desired diameter;
• and
• a handle extended perpendicularly from a bottom surface of the shield plate, such that the handle is parallel to a vial suspended from a vial orifice and passing through the shield orifice;
• the method comprising the following steps:
• (A) grasping the handle with one hand;
• (B) rotationally dialing the vial plate to a circumferential position of axial alignment of a selected vial orifice with the shield orifice;
• (C) inserting a vial of a selected size into the aligned vial orifice and shield orifice;
• (D) grasping the inserted vial with a thumb and forefinger of the hand that is grasping the handle while at least one other finger of the hand grasping the handle and a palm of said hand are employed to grasp the handle;
• and
• (E) inserting and removing a needle of a syringe held by an opposite hand of the user respectively into and out from the vial being so grasped.