As soon as a person is overwhelmed by a serious illness, he turns to a doctor for help. Therefore, quite often such a visit can end with the prescription of drugs both in the form of tablets and solutions. And to administer the drug, you need to know what the buttock is and how to inject.
Types of injections
There are these types of injections:
- intramuscular;
- intravenous;
- subcutaneous;
- intradermal.
But one of the easiest ways are intramuscular. Such injections are carried out in the largest muscles in the human body: in the buttock, thigh or arm - since they lack large nerves and blood vessels that can be affected, provoking complications.
Anatomically, what is the buttock? This is a large soft ischial muscle in a person with subcutaneous tissue and skin.
Step by step preparation for intramuscular injection
To do this, first wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water. Prepare a syringe. Prepare an ampoule with a drug. Hit the top of the ampoule several times with your finger to make drops of liquidwent down. Break the cap and draw the drug with the needle from the syringe.
Make sure that the needle does not touch surrounding objects, which can lead to bacterial complications. Therefore, the needle must be capped.
How to give an injection in the buttock of an adult?
To begin with, a person should be placed on his stomach in a horizontal position or on his side to relax the muscles. Then conditionally the buttock should be divided into four squares: two upper and two lower. The needle should be inserted directly into the uppermost square of the muscle to protect the patient from an injured nerve or blood vessel.
We put on gloves and treat the buttock with an antiseptic or alcohol.
Before administering the medicine, you need to release the air from the syringe. To do this, lift the needle up and press on the piston until liquid appears at the tip. The syringe is ready for injection.
We direct the needle to the skin at a right angle - 90 degrees. We sharply insert 3/4 of the length of the needle into the muscle. The medicinal substance should be injected slowly into the tissue - this will prevent undesirable complications for the patient, such as swelling and the formation of seals.
After we sharply remove the needle. We take a cotton swab moistened with alcohol and press it, massaging the injection site with a little circular motion - this contributes to the rapid and even distribution of the drug over the tissues.
Precautions
If the course of treatment consists of several injections, the buttocks should be alternated to reduce pain andmuscle damage.
Do not forget about safety: all needles, syringes, ampoules and cotton wool are exclusively disposable and cannot be reused.
