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Most nurses don't use recommended intramuscular injection site despite potential risks
Wiley-Blackwell ^
| May 9, 2011
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Posted on 05/09/2011 6:35:49 AM PDT by decimon
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05/09/2011 6:35:53 AM PDT
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decimon
To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...
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05/09/2011 6:36:25 AM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
“And THIS is for those all night study sessions and THIS is for the required graveyard shifts during nursing residency and THIS and THIS and THIS is for how the doctors talk down to us...”
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05/09/2011 6:38:29 AM PDT
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freedumb2003
(Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
To: decimon
This is strange, I don’t remember ever getting a shot in the butt, it is always the hip or upper arm.
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05/09/2011 6:42:54 AM PDT
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Ditter
To: skippermd
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05/09/2011 6:43:33 AM PDT
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mad_as_he$$
(Ladies and Gentlemen the _resident of the untied States!!)
To: decimon
There’s nothing like getting a big slug of gamma globulin right next to your sciatic nerve - makes walking an adventure.
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posted on
05/09/2011 6:44:49 AM PDT
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ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: Ditter
I agree. Upper arm or hip.
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posted on
05/09/2011 6:49:14 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: ComputerGuy
Theres nothing like getting a big slug of gamma globulin right next to your sciatic nerve - makes walking an adventure.It wasn't gamma globulin but a medic told me to knead my butt muscle for a while to avoid the usual problems. Seemed to work.
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05/09/2011 6:54:24 AM PDT
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decimon
To: ComputerGuy
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05/09/2011 6:54:57 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Trying to think of something worth the waste of a keystroke...)
To: decimon
As a kid in the late 50s and 60s, every time I went to the doctor I got one of those double penicillen shots with a chrome syringe and huge needle in the tuckus. I hated going, because I just knew I'd get it. It did hurt something awful....
Mike
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posted on
05/09/2011 6:55:05 AM PDT
by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: brytlea
Great pic of the First Couple :)
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posted on
05/09/2011 6:58:34 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: decimon
In Hospital Corps School we were taught to inject in the upper outer quadrant of the upper outer quadrant well away from the sciatic nerve. Despite that, I once received an injection while in hospital that was dangerously close to the sciatic. Guess that corpsman didn't show up the day they were teaching about injections.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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05/09/2011 7:01:33 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: decimon
I give myself B-12 injections and I prefer to NOT do intramuscular. Two reasons:
1) Less painful (I can use shorter needles to reach tissue, rather than muscle)
2) Effects occur more slowly over a longer time period
If I ever need B-12 uptake quickly, I do have a box of syringes with longer needles to do an intramuscular injection.
To: savedbygrace
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05/09/2011 7:15:26 AM PDT
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CH3CN
To: CH3CN
Probably. Haven’t had a CBC in a while to see if levels are getting worse, but I’m pretty sure PA resulted in nerve damage to one of my eye nerves, giving me double vision.
By the time my D. O. discovered the B-12 problem, it was too late to save the nerve, and I had to have eye muscle surgery to mitigate the double vision. (Long story.)
My mom has it, and at this point in time (94 YO) she has no feeling in her legs to above the knees.
To: ComputerGuy
LOL took me a minute to *get it*!
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05/09/2011 7:39:06 AM PDT
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brytlea
(Trying to think of something worth the waste of a keystroke...)
To: decimon
This must be a Canadian problem. I’m a nurse. I’ve never given, or have seen one of my colleagues give, an injection near the sciatic nerve. It’s always the upper outer quadrant.
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05/09/2011 8:23:05 AM PDT
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keats5
(Not all of us are hypnotized.)
To: savedbygrace
My FIL had it, and my hubby is probably developing it. Your description sure sounded familiar. It does seem to be hereditary in a lot of families, esp. northern European. Good luck. Take good control of the B-12 levels to minimize damage.
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05/09/2011 8:26:41 AM PDT
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CH3CN
To: keats5
“This must be a Canadian problem. Im a nurse. Ive never given, or have seen one of my colleagues give, an injection near the sciatic nerve. Its always the upper outer quadrant.”
Same here and I graduated from nursing school 28 years ago.
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posted on
05/09/2011 10:04:10 AM PDT
by
pops88
(geek chick over 40)
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