Intramuscular injection question?!
Question: I have a friend that took her daughter to the doctors office recently to get her routine shots and she said that there was air in the syringe. will this hurt the muscle site?
Answers: I have a friend that took her daughter to the doctors office recently to get her routine shots and she said that there was air in the syringe. will this hurt the muscle site?
no.
it is ok to have a little bit of air..and in fact most of time is unavoidable. its not going to do anything. air is just oxygen, which your body absorbs anyways
No
No, they actually hurt less as long as you don't move.
Nope, her daughter will be just fine.
No, only if it was in the vein
When we draw up for injections either IM, IV or subcut if we are taking it from a multiuse container, we first nned to draw back as much air as what we are going to take from the bottle.
BEFORE we give the injection we expell ever bit of air that we can, to the point where we squirt some of the fluid out. We always put in that little extra so we give the correct amount.
When we give an IM injection ONLY we put the needle in THEN draw back on the syringe, it checks to see that we are not hitting a vein, BUT it LOOKS as if ther is air in the syringe, tinged with blood.
THIS IS ALL NORMAL.
It will not hurt her muscle and the Doctor did the correct thing by following procedure.
It's just a bit scary to watch injections and see some air.