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Intramuscular Injection
Aka: Intramuscular Injection
- See Also
- Injectable Drug Delivery Route
- Emergency Medication Delivery
- Subcutaneous Injection
- Intravascular Injection
- Technique: Location
- Deltoid muscle
- Outer thigh (Vastus lateralis muscle)
- Upper, outer aspect of buttock
- Avoid sciatic nerve at inferior medial aspect
- Precautions
- Avoid frequent site reuse due to injection site fibrosis risk
- Efficacy
- Many standard IM medication uses are no more effective than their oral counterparts
- Vitamin B12 Replacement
- Ketorlac (Toradol)
- Corticosteroids
- Ceftriaxone in cases of refractory Otitis Media or Urinary Tract Infections in children
- Shatsky (2009) Am Fam Physician 79(4):297-300
- Contraindications
- Bleeding Diathesis (e.g. coagulopathy or Thrombocytopenia)
- Indications
- Analgesics
- Morphine
- Sedative-Hypnotics
- Diazepam
- Ketamine
- Vaccinations
- GardasilVaccine
- Hepatitis A Vaccine
- Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Rabies Vaccine
- Sex Hormones
- Testosterone
- Estradiol
- Depo Provera
- Lupron
- Antibiotics
- Penicillin
- Ceftriaxone
- Miscellaneous
- Interferon Beta (Multiple Sclerosis)