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It is done to check whether the needle has hit any blood vessel. Aspiration is especially important when you are administering anesthesia, for example, during a dental procedure, all anesthesia are local, meaning only a small area of your body will get numb, and by injecting the drug into a blood vessel it will follow the blood stream into other parts of the body. With that said, it does matter what type of injection you are administering, if it is some sort of vaccine, it may not cause any complications even if it gets in your blood stream.
Yes, the current flu shots that are injected (not nasal spray), are to be given IM (intramuscularly). With any IM shot, the syringe is aspirated to be sure that there is no frank blood around the needle, which could mean that the needle is in, or has opened, a vein. The IM medicines are not to be given IV (intravenously), so if the needle is in or near an open vein, the medicine could directly enter the blood stream, which might be harmful, or make the medicine ineffective. This test for the position of the needle is done so that the needle can be moved if it is in or close to the vein.
Other types of injections may or may not need to be aspirated for this reason. Only trained professionals should be giving injections of any kind, and they would know whether to aspirate or not. If someone giving an injection does not know, then they need additional training before injecting any medications.
It is typical to gently aspirate before injecting solutions into muscle to be sure the needle is not in a vein. Since flu vaccines are given IM (intra-muscularly) then it is usual for this to be done so the vaccine does not get put into a vein by mistake.
Typically Heparin, if given as an injection, is given as a subcutaneous(SQ) injection. only intramuscular(IM) injections have to be aspirated. Aspiration, or pulling back on the syringe and looking for blood before giving the medication, is used to make sure that an IM drug will not accidentally be given directly into the blood stream (IV), which could be very dangerous. While SQ drugs used to be aspirated, it was decided more recently that the needles used for these injections do not typically go deep enough to actually enter a main blood vessel (only capillaries). Therefore it is not necessary to aspirate before a SQ injection.
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Do you aspirate Lovenox?
No it is a Sub-q injection, you only aspirate on IM injections.
Do you aspirate when giving a b-12 injection?
No
Do you Aspirate for subcutaneous injection?
No because the sub-q area does not have a lot of blood vessels, so the risk of entering a blood vessel is little to none.
When giving an injection to determine if the needle is in a blood vessel you would?
Aspirate
What do you do if you aspirate blood during IM injection?
im an RMA and a RN so i know what to do you remove the seringe and start the whole thing over dont get stressed it happens to everyone it just means u hit a small vessal
Do you get scabs from Heroin injection?
On the injection site? Sorry im confused.
Can you massage an IM injection site after administration?
we do not massage site after IM injection because it may cause underlying tissue damage
When giving subcutaneous injections you do aspirate for blood first why not in giving anticoagulants and insulin injection?
When giving SubQ injections you 'do NOT' aspirate. I am a nursing student and we have been taught not to apirate insulin as it is only going into the SQ layer which only has tiny capillaries and will do no significant damage if hit. The rules for insulin injection are as follows: *if you can pinch an inch, inject at 45 degrees, if you can pinch 2 inches, inject at 90 degrees *keep bevel up, do not aspirate, do not massage (alters absorption rate) *used mixed insulins within 5 minutes *for rapid-acting and short-acting insulins, have FOOD IN SIGHT
What is the medical term meaning medication placed directly within the muscle?
Intramuscular injection involves placing the medication directly into the belly of a muscle.
The correct site for an adult IM injection is the?
deltoid
Is haldol and benadryl compatible for im injection?
yes
Is it true that you no longer need to aspirate the needle when giving IM injections?
According to article "To Aspirate Or Not: An integrative review of the evidence" in Nursing 2012, the answer is No. Please refer to this evidenced based article featured in the authoritative & well known Nursing 2012 journal. ~Dawn H, RN
