A 25-year-old male patient presented with foot drop indicative of a sciatic nerve injury following gluteal intramuscular (IM) injections. Blood tests and magnetic resonance imaging of his spine were ...

Intramuscular administration of tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug used to target severe bleeding after childbirth, is safe and quickly reaches therapeutic concentrations in pregnant women, according to a ...

For a heart just damaged by a blocked artery, timing matters. So does access. That is what makes a new experimental treatment stand out: instead of being delivered directly to the heart, it is ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I give my wife an octreotide intramuscular injection monthly into the gluteal muscle. I was taught to pull back on the needle to be sure you aren't in a blood vessel. Sometimes, I am ...

Seven out of ten hospital nurses who took part in a Canadian study used the dorsogluteal (DG) buttock site to administer intramuscular injections -- despite the potential risks of sciatic nerve injury ...

injcetion medication M-M-R II, Varivax, and ProQuad are supplied in single-dose vials as lyophilized vaccine for SC or IM injection after reconstitution. The approvals were based on data from ...

One of the things that many people hate most about getting vaccinations and taking certain types of medication is needles. Any medication that has to be delivered intramuscular typically requires a ...

In a recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers evaluated the prophylactic immune protection conferred by a single intramuscular (I.M.) injection of adintrevimab (ADG20) ...

AN iron-dextran combination of low molecular weight§ has proved to be effective in correcting the anemia of iron deficiency. Hagedorn 1 reported that over 400 injections had been given at the Mayo ...

ENZYMES, once regarded by most physicians as the mysterious and complex playthings of the biochemist, have steadily climbed to a position of eminence and familiarity in many fields of medicine. The ...