Charlot (IM needles)

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Hi Charlot,

Good luck in your coming exam.

For the adrenalin injection, you use an autoinjector which provides a fixed dose of adrenalin. An example is EpiPen.

For Hydrocortisone, you use a 2 ml syringe with orange or blue needles. You are usually given either 2 orange needles or 2 blues. You change the needle after mixing the liquid with powder in the vial so you have a fresh tip (but to my knowledge they are both the same size)

For Glucagon you also get a special syringe which contains 1ml of liquid to which you combine 1mg of the freeze dried glucagen powder from the vial.

This is the information I know. I hope it helps.

Ahmed

From: charlotvam <charlotvam@...>Subject: Part 2 Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 6:21 PM

Hi all, Few days to go for my part 2 exam. I am afraid things get messy in my brain...I would appreciate any help regarding the following? I want to know what is the answer for treatment a burst lip ( hit by mistake during dental treament).. Also, in the IM injection..they provide many syringes and needles..so which syringe we have to use for adrenaline, hydrocortisone and glucagon?? and which needle we have to use for taking the medication from the vial and which one we use it for pt. injection????charlot------------------------------------