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Medical Forum / General / General / November 2007Injection techniques
I am currently training to be a registered nurse, and i have been refining my injection techniques however, as some injection come prefilled with some air present in the syringe, can anyone enlighten me as too how much air in a syringe prior to an injection would cause harm to my patients. > I am currently training to be a registered nurse, and i have been refining my > injection techniques however, as some injection come prefilled with some air > present in the syringe, can anyone enlighten me as too how much air in a > syringe prior to an injection would cause harm to my patients. You expel the air. Of course, getting a few air bubbles under the skin wouldn't be as big a deal as getting it in a blood vessel. Still, it takes no time or effort to expel the air. Steve can anyone enlighten me as too how much air in a syringe prior to an injection would cause harm to my patients. << It is a .. myth .. Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian! http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore! http://tinyurl.com/a3cc3 DEAD PEOPLE WALKING http://tinyurl.com/zk9fk >I am currently training to be a registered nurse, and i have been refining >my > injection techniques however, as some injection come prefilled with some > air > present in the syringe, can anyone enlighten me as too how much air in a > syringe prior to an injection would cause harm to my patients. If you're talking about an intramuscular or subuctaneous injection, even liters of air won't cause harm. If you're talking about an intravenous injection it would take many, many cc's of air to cause problems and that would be highly variable. Intraarterial injections would be potentially more serious. Before you inject, you alway draw back a little anyway, right? And if you get blood back, you don't inject anything - you remove the needle and reposition. Therefore highly unlikely you'd ever accidentally inject anything into a vein? Odd that you would come to an internet newsgroup for information on this rather basic concept, something that was surely covered in your "nurse's training".... HMc On 12 Nov 2007 07:21:02 -0600 in sci.med, "Howard McCollister" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote, >serious. Before you inject, you alway draw back a little anyway, right? And >if you get blood back, you don't inject anything - you remove the needle and >reposition. Therefore highly unlikely you'd ever accidentally inject >anything into a vein? If the needle is in a muscle and you draw back, what do you get? > On 12 Nov 2007 07:21:02 -0600 in sci.med, "Howard McCollister" > <nospam@nospam.net> wrote, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > If the needle is in a muscle and you draw back, what do you get? If the needle happens to be in a blood vessel in that muscle, you get blood. Otherwise, you get nothing. Many injections are supposed to be delivered into the muscle. HMc
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