Very often there are situations when either you or your loved ones need injections. How to do injections intramuscularly? This question primarily scares those who have to do this procedure. However, there is nothing complicated about this. With a small baggage of knowledge, everyone can do an intramuscular injection.
Most often, injections are made intramuscularly into the buttock - the gluteus muscle is quite large, well supplied with blood vessels, and from here the medicine quickly enters the bloodstream - a therapeutic effect occurs. In addition, the volume of the gluteal muscle allows injections to be made almost painlessly. If you do not know how to give an injection in the buttock, you should pay attention to the following general rules. The most important of them is hand disinfection with an alcohol solution before the introduction of a medicinal substance.
- You need to open the ampoule immediately before making an injection in the buttock. It is unacceptable that the medicine stand in open form for any time.
- In order to quickly open the ampoule, it is necessary to saw off the neck of the ampoule in a place indicated by a different color, or in the thinnest place at the top of the ampoule, using a special file that is enclosed in the injection box.
- After that, we collect the medicine and close the syringe needle with a cap. The syringe must be selected in accordance with the amount of substance in the ampoule. You should not take large syringes, in which the drug does not take even half - the needle is thicker in them and the introduction can be painful. Syringes are up to one milliliter - for children, people with tuberculosis or diabetes; from two to twenty milliliters - for a different type of injection for adults. The most optimal are 2 and 5 ml syringes.
- Now the important question is: where to inject in the buttock? Despite the fact that an injection in the buttock is considered the simplest, but there are rules. The buttock must be mentally divided into four parts, as if drawing a visual cross on it. An injection should be done in the upper right square of the gluteal muscle, so as not to damage the main vein.
- After that, the syringe needle opens and the syringe is shaken so that there are no air bubbles. The air that has formed inside is released by pressing the piston until the first drops of the drug appear. Air release is a necessary procedure. If air enters the vessel, it can cause embolism - blockage by air. In principle, the human body dissolves up to one cubic centimeter of air on its own, but it is better to develop the habit of always removing air from the syringe in order to avoid unpleasant consequences.
- The selected place where you are going to give an injection must be disinfected with alcohol.
- Before you make an injection in the buttock, it is important to properly tune. Your indecision and slowness can bring pain to the person you are injecting.
- Making an injection, we take a syringe in our right hand, slightly stretch the place where we will insert the needle, and with a quick movement we introduce the needle at an angle of ninety degrees into the buttock by about three quarters of the length of the needle.
- Usually, all drugs are administered slowly, so that the liquid has evenly distributed. Before you make an injection, you need to pay attention to the technique of administering the drug - it is described in the annex to injections.
- After administering the drug with your left hand, squeeze the injection site with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol and pull out the needle.
- The place where the injection was made should not bleed - that means the injection was done correctly and the vessels were not damaged. Normally, after an injection, a small amount of medicinal fluid may leak out, you should not worry about this, because most of the medicine has got to the right place.
If you follow these simple rules, you can quickly learn how to make an injection in the buttock correctly. This skill is useful for the future - you can perform simple manipulations not only for yourself, but also for your loved ones.