What Are Subcutaneous Injection Sites?

Subcutaneous injection: Hypodermic injection injects the liquid into the lower layer of the skin.

Subcutaneous injection

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Subcutaneous injection: Hypodermic injection injects the liquid into the lower layer of the skin.

1. Prepare items (medicine solution, disposable syringe, cotton swab, abrasive wheel, iodine, alcohol);

2. Check and check the drug name, pay attention to whether there is deterioration, and whether the glass bottle ampoule is broken;

3. Open the ampoule or bottle cap after disinfection;

4. After the syringe inhales the drug solution, the air in the syringe should be discharged;

5. Select the injection site: often the outer skin of the upper arm is subcutaneous and the outer thigh;

6. The injection site should be disinfected with 2% iodine and 70% alcohol;

7. Pick up the skin at the injection site by hand, pierce the needle obliquely under the skin, draw back no blood, and then advance the liquid medicine

8. Pull out the needle and press with a cotton ball or cotton swab for a moment.

1. The angle of needle insertion is: the needle is 30 degrees from the skin;

2. Two fast and one slow: fast needle insertion, fast needle withdrawal, slow drug pushing;

3. Do not pierce the needle stem completely to prevent the needle stem from breaking from the root joint. If the needle breaks, you should keep the part and the limb still. Quickly clamp the broken end with blood vessel forceps and pull it out. If all the muscles are buried, you should ask the surgeon to remove it.