TOPSHOT - Nurse Practitioner Terri Welch administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at the Haxby and Wigginton Group Medical Practice in Haxby, northern England on ...

Intramuscular injection remains a cornerstone of clinical practice, offering rapid drug absorption and efficacy when performed correctly. However, its success is intrinsically linked to precise ...

Q: I received all the COVID vaccines and boosters. Now I’m not sure I should have. Ever since those shots, my left upper arm is in such excruciating pain and it shoots up into my shoulder and ...

When a medication is injected directly into muscle, it is called an intramuscular injection (IM). The Z-track method is a type of IM injection technique used to prevent tracking (leakage) of the ...

BENZATHINE penicillin (N,N′-dibenzylethylenediamine dipenicillin G) is a long-acting repository penicillin that provides low serum penicillin levels for three or four weeks after a single ...

Photo A. Shoulder pain after vaccination. Source: Chris Gilbert, MD, PhD Cognitive bias in health care Authority bias makes us prone to trust what those with more academic degrees, experience, or ...

Is there any advantage in administering injectable medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera [DMPA]) in the deltoid as opposed to the gluteus?—KATHY INGALLINERA, FNP, Sitka, Alaska The likely rationale for ...

Aims To examine depth of subcutaneous fat at gluteal intramuscular injection sites. Design Retrospective study. Setting General hospital. Participants 100 consecutive adults who had computed ...