Posted on 11/28/2005 12:54:12 PM PST by Born Conservative
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday.
Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.
Two-thirds of the 50 patients in the study did not receive the full dosage of the drug, which instead lodged in the fat tissue of their buttocks, researchers from The Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin said in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
Besides patients receiving less than the correct drug dosage, medications that remain lodged in fat can cause infection or irritation, researchers Victoria Chan said.
"There is no question that obesity is the underlying cause. We have identified a new problem related, in part, to the increasing amount of fat in patients' buttocks," Chan said.
"The amount of fat tissue overlying the muscles exceeds the length of the needles commonly used for these injections," she said.
The 25 men and 25 women studied at the Irish hospital ranged in age from 21 to 87.
The buttocks are a good place for intramuscular injections because there are relatively few major blood vessels, nerves and bones that can be damaged by a needle. Plentiful smaller blood vessels found in muscle carry the drug to the rest of the body, while fat tissue contains relatively few blood vessels.
Obesity affects more than 300 million people worldwide and is based on a measure of height versus weight that produces a body mass index above 30. An estimated 65 percent of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.
Cue Sir Mix-a-lot...
Baby Got Back.
Just, Damn.
LOL!!
We'll just pray we don't get shot up with the wrong needle...
Yeeeouch ping!
So that's why doctors want to give shots in the hiney.
Hey, I need all my butt fat----winter's coming.
Don't worry; if your ass is too small, and the nurse uses a that is too long, it will just bounce off your bone :)
***Insert Michael Moore joke here***
"That gown doesn't make you look fat. You ARE fat."
Ain't saying it. Not gonna do it. No one can make me.
Okay, that's it for me. Celery and carrot sticks until I'm 170 lbs again. No way I'm checking out of this mortal coil with my autopsy reading "Cause of Death: Ass too fat"
usually because the gluteus maximus was able to take it better than the arms or legs.
Dang!
OK, just Dang!
usually because the gluteus maximus was able to take it better than the arms or legs.
Baby got back!
Dat's what happen when baby got back!
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