Does drawing up technique influence patients’ perception of pain at the injection site?

✍ Scribed by Danny Rock

• Book ID: 104469225
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1324-3780
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0979.2000.00176.x

✦ Synopsis

Traditionally nurses have used one of two drawing up techniques for the administration of intramuscular (i.m.) injections. In the first, the injectable is drawn up using one needle, which is then discarded before administration using a new needle. Alternatively, the injectable is drawn up and administered without changing the needle. Advocates of the two-needle technique suggest that this method reduces pain at the injection site. In the present study, 70 subjects completed an independently validated pain scale following administration of an i.m. depot neuroleptic. The conclusion, that there is a significant reduction in injection site pain, using the two-needle technique, is not supported by the data obtained in this study.