Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles

Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deranger@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You ever check out jet injectors?

  a narrow, high-pressure stream of liquid penetrates the outermost layer of the skin to deliver medication to targeted underlying tissues

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's how I got some vaccines in gradeschool. To the underside of my upper arm, the fatty bit. Hurt like fuck.

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  • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is what I was thinking when reading the title. That one supposedly was cool, because there was no needle, never seen one in action but I presume there also was no bleeding.

    Yet we don’t see them used today, apparently the biggest reason was that there was a splashback and retrograde follow and then patient’s blood could end up contaminating the nozzle, so basically it was like using the same needle on multiple patients.

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    • buddhabound@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re not cool. They’re fast and good for giving lots of shots in a situation where you need to get a lot of people in a hurry - especially if you’re giving multiple vaccinations at the same time.

      I got one of those used on me in basic training - a place where you need to vaccinate a few thousand people in about 30 minutes. Each one could do 4 shots at a time, and they had them in multiple configurations so you could get up to 4 in each arm for each “injection” station. We stepped through the line, and you got whatever shots you were missing in your records.

      It hurts, like you could imagine a high pressure power washer with a needle-point burst with 4 heads blasting vaccines in your arms. It works, in the machine-like way the military works, and it is highly effective for mass vaccinations. So, I guess it makes it cool, but also it sucks like you’d expect 4-30 vaccines at once would suck.

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      • Alto@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Grandpa told me about a guy in basic that jerked when they shot it, absolutely tore open his skin.

        Fuck that, give me the needle. And I fucking hate needles.

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      • reflex@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What do you think about jet injectors?

        That one supposedly was cool

        They’re not cool.

        What a wild ride.

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think no. I don’t like needles either, but I’ll deal with those first.

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