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Depends on pts age. Some are given in the thigh, buttocks or upper arm.
gluteal mucle and deltoid musle
skin
You can give deep intramuscular injection in upper and outer quadrant of the hip. You can give the deep intramuscular injection between anterior and lateral aspect of the middle thigh.
Intramuscular injections are not something that you should attempt to learn without proper instruction and supervision from a qualified instructor. If there is a medical reason, your doctor may teach you how to preform injections on yourself or one of your dependents. It is not something to try after only reading about it.
The people who administer intramuscular injections are trained before they are allowed to administer injections to humans. Sometimes they are trained on pieces of fruit first.
subcutaneous intravenous intramuscular
The landmark for intramuscular injections is the acromion process. The actually injection site should be several centimeters away from the process, on the deltoid muscle.
Penicillin comes in tablets, intravenous solutions and intramuscular injections.
False, intramuscular injections
Injections, in general, are taken through many places in the human body. They could be taken under the skin, in the veins, or in the muscles or called intramuscular. Taking injections through the butt is considered as a type of an intramuscular injection. This type of injection could be take through the muscles of the arm but they are preferred to be taken through the butt because the muscle of the butt is huge and can better tolerate the injection and its effects preventig many disadvantages of injections taken through the muscles of the arm.
There really isn't a limit to the number of subcutaneous or intramuscular injections you can get. It can, however, be difficult to find a good vein for more than a couple of intravenous injections.
Usually, the vehicle used for a intramuscular drug contains oil or a "fatty liquid". The amount of liquid injected is generally bigger in an IM injection and the drug might also be more irritative. The nail used is generally bigger and longer. For these reasons, almost all IM injections are more painful than SC injections.
Injections just under the skin, so that you can see the needle while the medication is injected, are referred to as Intradermal. The PPD test for tuberculosis is administered this way. Injections administered into the layer below the skin are called subcutaneous. Insulin is administered this way. Injections which deliver medicine into a muscle are referred to as Intramuscular. Most immunizations are given this way, as are most antibiotic injections. Injections which deliver medicine directly into the bloodstream are referred to as Intravenous.
The best place to give intramuscular in cats is semimembranous and semitendinous muscle...