Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab707/6353927

by babesh • 5 years ago

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babesh• 5 years ago

"This study provided in vivo evidence that inadvertent intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may induce myopericarditis. Brief withdrawal of syringe plunger to exclude blood aspiration may be one possible way to reduce such risk."

gus_massa• 5 years ago

Is this really a problem? To extract blood the nurse must aim for a vein, and it's a long process with many steps, and sometimes they must retry a few times before success.

And I think for the vaccine they use a part of the arm without major veins, to avoid complications, bleeding and bruises.

tjr• 5 years ago

It's a potential problem. The odds are slim that they would hit a vein in the arm, but if they did, that would not be good.

I for one am confused as to why they wouldn't aspirate as standard procedure. I had to take some training on intramuscular injections a while back to help a family member, and checking for blood before proceeding with the injection was one of the major points.

Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019

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