Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles
takeda@lemmy.world 9 months agoThis 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.
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.
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.
Maeve@kbin.social 9 months ago
I’m right there with you.
reflex@kbin.social 9 months ago
What a wild ride.