How to use a syringe

Should master the rules of thumb to use a syringe and learn how to do injections (intramuscular and subcutaneous). Before you pick up a syringe and a medicine for injection (vial, bottle), you should wash your hands thoroughly, preferably with a brush and soap and then rub the cotton swab with alcohol.

The neck of an ampoule (or vial) should be treated with medicine before opening the cotton swab with alcohol. After opening the vial or bottle of medicine it is desirable to recruit in one syringe with a needle and to inject - another. But before - to remove air bubbles from the syringe. To do this, lift up the needle and syringe to release part of the contents, moving the piston inside the syringe.

Subcutaneous (or intramuscular) medication is recommended to introduce into the region of the outer surface of the hip, shoulder or in the area of the abdominal wall. Intramuscular injections should enter into verhnenaruzhny square buttock or hip muscle or shoulder. In these places there are no major blood vessels and nerves, which prevents damage. Injections are contraindicated in areas of the body with pustular, inflammatory or other lesions (burns, frostbite, psoriasis, etc.).

With subcutaneous injection of the skin at the injection site wiped with a cotton swab with alcohol and grab fingers of his left hand to the fold. Right hand safely produce an injection needle at 0,5-1,0 cm base folds, then release the crease and slowly injected the contents of the syringe, hold the needle with your finger and making sure that the medication remains in the syringe (with a bad leak medication can penetrate the gap between the piston and syringe) and poured onto the skin (this happens when bad connection with a syringe needle). Then the needle is extracted, and the injection site with alcohol impose fleece.

Insert the needle, do not rush with the injection. Check to see whether the end of the needle hit a blood vessel (they may be deep in the muscle). To do this, pull the plunger of the syringe (produce a drain effect). When you see a trickle of blood in the syringe vkolite syringe to another location. Control again, and only in the absence of blood in the syringe inject the medication into the muscle.