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intramuscular injection
Injection of a medication directly into a muscle
Contraindications:
- thrombocytopenia
- coagulopathy
Procedure:
- hypodermic needle 1-1.5 inch
- gluteal muscles: inject into the upper, outer quadrant of the buttocks to avoid the sciatic nerve
- vaccines preferentially administered into deltoid muscle
- alternative site: anterolateral thigh (quadriceps)
Complications:
- infection
- fibrosis (frequent injections)
- hematoma
Specific
intramuscular antibiotic injection
intramuscular autologous bone marrow cell therapy
General
injection
References
- Wikipedia: Intramuscular injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramuscular_injection
- How to give an intramuscular injection
Drugs.com
http://www.drugs.com/cg/how-to-give-an-intramuscular-injection.html
- How to administer intramuscular (IM) vaccine injections
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2020.pdf