How correctly to make an injection?

There are several types of injections: intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous and rectal (enema). Intramuscular injection - one of the most common types of injection,when you need to introduce a small amount of medicine. It is possible to make a prick in the muscle of anyone, but this does not mean that this procedure should be treated negligently.

Most often intramuscular injections are done in thoseparts of the body where the layer of muscle tissue has a significant thickness, and there are no nerve trunks and large vessels nearby. Usually intramuscular injections are produced in the buttock, the front surface of the thigh or the arm (deltoid muscle). At home, it's easier and safer to do an injection in the gluteal muscle. So, how to properly inject into the buttock?

Intramuscular injection in the butt is bestdo in a prone position: in this position, the muscles relax, and the prick is less painful. To correctly make an injection, you need to determine the place for the injection. If you accidentally prick "wrong", you can damage the sciatic nerve. The optimal place for injection is the outer upper quarter of the buttock. To find it, you need to mentally divide the butt into four parts.

You can not get the shot right if you take the wrong syringe. For intramuscular injections, syringes with long needles (longer than for intravenous and subcutaneousinjections). If you take a too short needle or enter it not completely, the medicine may not fall into the muscle, remain under the skin and provoke inflammation.

Before you take an injection, you need to Wash hands thoroughly. Then you should take the ampoule with the medicine, lightlyshake and knock with a fingernail on the tip of the ampoule so that no medicine remains in it. After that, you need to wipe the tip with alcohol wool soaked in alcohol. The tip of the ampoule is broken off with special saws - it should be in a box with ampoules. This file should be held at the base of the tip several times with strong pressure, and then break off the tip.

Then open the syringe package andput the needle on the syringe without removing the cap from it. After this, you need to remove the cap from the needle and dial into the syringe medicine from the ampoule. After taking the medicine, turn the syringe upward and tap it with a fingernail to force the air bubbles to rise. After this, you need to gently push the plunger of the syringe until a droplet of medicine appears on the tip of the needle. This is necessary in order for the air to escape from the syringe.

Closing the needle with a cap, it is necessary to decontaminate the site of the injection, wiping it with a cotton swab moistened with alcohol. If this is not done, infiltrates can occur at the site of the injection - painful seals. Having removed the cap from the needle, you need to stretch or compressskin above the injection site. After that, the needle is stuck into the injection site. Doing the injection for the first time, many are afraid to drill the needle and do it gradually. But the more sharply you stick the needle, the less pain it will be to the patient. Stretching an injection, you only make it worse.

Depth of immersion of a needle depends on the thickness of fat. Here it is necessary to follow the general rule: the needle is inserted into the muscle approximately but 5 mm. Determine where the fat tissue has ended and the muscle has started, you can by the density of the tissue: muscle tissue is denser than fat, so its resistance will be greater.

Before you administer the medicine, you should lightlypull back the plunger of the syringe. If blood enters the syringe, the needle enters the blood vessel. In this case, you need to change the depth and direction of the dive without removing the needle, or replace the needle and inject it elsewhere. This rule is especially important to comply with the introduction of oily solutions: when ingested, the oil solution can cause embolism!

Sticking needle, medicine needed slowly insert into muscle, and then quickly remove the needle and squeeze the alcohol wool soaked with alcohol. All!

As you can see, it's not so difficult to make a shot correctly in the buttock. But intravenous injection is better still to entrust specialists.