INTRAMUSCULAR OR INTRA-LIPOMATOUS INJECTIONS
INTRAMUSCULAR OR INTRA-LIPOMATOUS INJECTIONS
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm198208053070607
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
SEELEY, ET
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作者:
COCKSHOTT, WP;THOMPSON, GT;SEELEY, ET
VIEWING routine computerized-tomography (CT) scans of the pelvis suggests that in a North American population the majority of injections intended to be intramuscular are actually delivered into fat.To confirm or refute this impression we studied the thickness of gluteal fat in a hospital population. We found that few female patients and under 15 per cent of male patients do in fact receive an intramuscular injection when a needle of the usual size is inserted into the buttocks. The implications of this finding are discussed below.MethodsTo learn where the needle is introduced in intramuscular injections, we observed both . . .