Aspirating

[SDPonce63]

Do y’all consider aspirating mandatory when administering IM injections?

 

[LGTWHIT]

Not once have I ever aspirated in over 6 years now...

 

[AntM1564]

Why not, it take 2 seconds.

 

[jrock645]

Can I get some HBO here... what is aspirating?

 

[Brain5ick]

I do it. Better than that burn from shooting into a vein and it only takes a second so why not?

 

[mixedup]

I always aspirate it ain't funny hitting a vein. I've been doing it for 2 decades

 

[SDPonce63]

Can I get some HBO here... what is aspirating?

Pulling back on the plunger to make sure you’re not on a vein... blood will draw if you are in one or air will draw if you’re not in a vein...

 

[AnabolicGuru]

I used to do it, but I haven’t really been doing it anymore. Can be detrimental if anything considering that the needle will be more likely to move around while doing so.

 

[SDPonce63]

I used to do it, but I haven’t really been doing it anymore. Can be detrimental if anything considering that the needle will be more likely to move around while doing so.

I thought the same... I did my first pin in the glute and being bent around like that is an awkward position that makes me shake and I’m afraid of bending the needle... they don’t even teach nurses to aspirate now..

 

[SDPonce63]

I thought the same... I did my first pin in the glute and being bent around like that is an awkward position that makes me shake and I’m afraid of bending the needle... they don’t even teach nurses to aspirate now..

I’m right handed and I can’t imagine objecting my left glute and trying to aspirate while holding the syringe stable... idk might just skip the aspirating on the left side glute... such a small change anyways

 

[DemntedCowboy]

Have never aspirated. Never will

 

[rascal14]

I aspirated my first few pins. I have done hundreds since then and have not aspirated since those first few. The aspirating ended up causing more movement than anything.

 

[rgurleyjr]

Have never aspirated. Never will

 

[kisaj]

Pinning for 8 years on TRT in my glute and have never once aspirated.

 

[swimfan65]

Not once have I ever aspirated in over 6 years now...

15 years...not once. It's no longer protocol in the medical field while administering IM injections...so why would I do it?

 

[Whisky]

15 years...not once. It's no longer protocol in the medical field while administering IM injections...so why would I do it?

Exactly.

Unless you are injecting near a vein why would you?

 

[RickyBlobby]

Hundreds of injections and never aspirated

 

[justhere4comm]

Nope. Not ever, and won't. My wife has been in the game for 30 years and she never did nor was she ever instructed to.
CDC Policy isn't to aspirate for IM.

 

[khall1974]

I got less pip when I didn't aspirate

 

[SDPonce63]

I got less pip when I didn't aspirate

Gonna try no aspirating today it’s my second time injecting so excited to see if there is a difference....

 

[swimfan65]

I got less pip when I didn't aspirate

That because you're not moving the needle around while its in the muscle

 

[khall1974]

That because you're not moving the needle around while its in the muscle

Especially with the left glute...sometimes I would almost pull the needle out doing it