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.
Seriously, this is a hugh problem for hospitals. Gurneys, elevators...heck, hallways! Cannot accommodate these big patients. You see few evenings in the ER pass without some personnel having to climb onto a patient in order to minister to him...
Back in 1997, while on a trip to Cancun, I got something virulent that caused my stomach to eject its contents upward periodically.
My friend and I found a doctor on Isla Mujeres who spoke (some) English, and he gave me what he alleged was a shot of Phenergan.
I had a lump at the injection site - about the size of a pecan - until 2003.
To this day, I have no idea what was in that shot besides Phenergan. (I just know I was so grateful to stop heaving, I woulda named a child after that doctor, if I'd had one.)
YOU SAY WEIGHT, I SAY WAIT
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I think this deserves a Just Damn ping.....
LOL!
. . .hiding crack.
Obligatory: Get on your bikes an ride!
"Big Bottom" - Spinal Tap
The bigger the cushion
The sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband
The deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about bum cakes
My girl's got 'em
Big bottom, drive me out of my mind
How can I leave this behind?
I saw her on Monday
'Twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday
Each velvety cheekday
You know what I mean
My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game is waiting there inside her tights
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about mudflaps
My gal's got 'em
Big bottom, drive me out of my mind
How can I leave this behind?
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about bum cakes
My girl's got 'em
Big bottom, drive me out of my mind
How can I leave this behind?
J-Lo alert J-Lo alert. If Jenifer Lopez is a fat assed obese person, put me down for one.
what if it breaks off in their a$$?
The doctor will just tell to take two asspirin and call him in the morning.
All this from the land of the wee people?
SD
"I've given shots before that have bounced off bones; it's pretty freaky when it happens, but probably doesn't hurt anything."
Ive hit the bone twice giving IM's, both times it made me cringe! LOL
MM
Phenergan is irritating to the tissues, especially if not given deep into a large muscle. It's a great drug when you are vomiting; you can also take it as a suppository.
As for the lump, there is an unusual side effect of shots called a sterile abscess, which is a collection of fluid in the tissues that has no organisms growing in it (I've seen one case in 16 years as an RN). It usually needs to be drained, but it's not an infection. Sounds like that is what you may have had, and it eventually resolved on it's own.
Strangest thing I ever had, and I've had any number of strange things! I'm just glad it's finally gone, so my callipygian beauty can be truly appreciated in all its glory.
I give this shot to thee pa rump a rump rump what a plump rump, rumpapumppump...
sing along now...
Now there's a word one doesn't see every day.
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