Interesting story on the injection IV rather than the muscle contributing to issues. Imagine some poorly trained jabber/nurse getting it wrong and you paying the price.
Another One Bites The Dust
"Inadvertent Intravascular is Rare" Myth - Despite Aspiration, Experienced Nurses Hit the Vascular System in 1.9% of Injections according to a 2015 Studyopen.substack.com
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My wife has been a RN for almost 20 years now. She left her job of 20 years at the hospital a year ago because they announced that they were going to mandate the clot shot (they also said they would accept exemption’s.). She resigned anyway because she did not want to work for a organization where something like that was even on the table.
Digressing, when she was at the hospital, one of her main roles was educating and training new grads and new hires.
When I started reading about all these sudden deaths from the clot shot I made comment to her about that. Her response was “why yea, I would believe that.” She said that over the past few years she started noticing that whenever new grads would give IM injections they wouldn’t pull back on the syringe. She was taught that whenever you give a IM injection you always pull back first, if blood comes into the syringe you pull out and discard because you screwed up and hit a vein.
After several of her students she finally asked what they have been taught about IM injections. They said the new protocol is to only pull back to check for blood on a IM if that certain injection states “do not inject in a vein.”
That being said, I’m not shocked at all about these sudden deaths, I’m sure most of them went right into the blood stream and right to the heart.
Her comment to me was that if I ever need a shot that she needs to be the one who does it, or someone who is at least over 30.
