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Injection site, help???!!

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McQueasy · 07/06/2012 09:20

Hi all. Looking for any paeds health care professionals or anyone in the know about paediatric injection techniques.
My dd has just had her second lot of imms and I am slightly concerned about the injection technique that the nurse used.
Firstly she did not pull back on the syringe to make sure she wasn't in a vein secondly the injection site was really posterior on her leg on the lower aspect of her hamstring just above her knee.
Am I missing something? Is this reasonable practice in paeds? Cause I would fail a student for it in adult practice. Don't really want to cause problems but this is the second time it's happened tia

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CatherinaJTV · 07/06/2012 11:42

According to a friend of mine (achtung: hearsay) you no longer pull back in pediatric vaccine administration. However, the application site seems very odd to me. I found this (pdf) from the CDC:
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2020.pdf

McQueasy · 09/06/2012 05:26

That's really helpful, thanks cjtv x

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