Do you know what I tell you, friends?It seems to me that recently more and more people are interested in medicine. Almost all of my friends are passionate about traditional and traditional methods of treatment. I told my friend: “Everyone who communicates with you is becoming interested in the business, and even with me you are interested in medicine”. He replied that only I can talk so enthusiastically about how, for example, to make subcutaneous injections.
But agree that in medicine there really issomething wonderful. If it were not for regular subcutaneous injection of insulin, how many close people would we have lost. My grandmother was sick with diabetes and, thank God, she lived a full and long life thanks to this very injection.
It is possible that be able to perform intramuscularThe shots are more important than knowing how a subcutaneous injection is performed, but anything happens in life. At the very least, any medical professional should have the skills to perform any type of this procedure.
And injections are of several types. In particular:
- intracutaneous injection sounds similar, but different from subcutaneous.
- The most common injections are intramuscular. This is a shot in the buttock.
- Intravenous injections - injection into a vein.
- Intra-arterial.
There are even rectal injections. Yes, yes, they are made with an enema. There are intraosseous injections.
We are mostly interested in hypodermic today.injection and technique of its implementation. Above was an example of insulin. It is just injected subcutaneously. At the same time, diabetics do an excellent job themselves, although I used to give my grandmother several times an insulin injection subcutaneously. In our family, everyone knows how to make injections, even intravenously. Parents are doctors, I am a paramedic, and the others learned on me when I was sick.
By the way, before the operation put subcutaneousinjection of a special drug. With its help, the patient is prepared for surgery. Thus, anxiety is reduced in a patient and anesthesia is enhanced. Such a preparation is called premedication.
Subcutaneous injection renders fasterthe effect of the drug than its introduction through the mouth. Such injections are made in the subcutaneous fat fold. This place has excellent blood supply. It is not difficult to guess that the drug injected under the skin (subcutaneous injection), quickly penetrates the blood.
Subcutaneous injection technique
The time has come to describe the consistent implementation of subcutaneous injections.
The most suitable places for performing injections under the skin are:
- outer humeral surface
- the outer surface of the thigh (front),
- abdominal wall.
In the above areas, it is easiest to take the skin into a fold, and the risk of damage to nerves and blood vessels is minimal.
In preparation for the subcutaneous injection, the following steps are taken.
- Hands thoroughly washed and put on gloves. At home, you can do without them.
- The injection site is treated with alcohol using a cotton swab.
- Another cotton ball moistened with alcohol is placed under the pinky of the free hand.
- In the hand is taken a syringe with a pre-dialed drug.
Classically, such an injection is performed in the area of the outer surface of the shoulder.
- With your free hand you need to fold the skin.
- The needle is inserted into the fold under the skin at an angle of 45º to a depth of more than half the length of the needle.
- Slowly, slowly, by pressing on the piston with your thumb, the drug is injected under the skin.
- A cotton ball moistened in alcohol, which is already under the index finger, presses the needle insertion point and at the same time the syringe with the needle is drastically pulled out from under the skin.
- The same ball wipes the injection site.
That's all the wisdom. Now you know how to make a subcutaneous injection. It's simple, is not it?
hint
If a small amount of air is noticed in the syringe, then this vial is left in the syringe along with the rest of the drug.
