Werner Ch. 9

Question 1

When should medicine be injected?

Answer 1

1. When the recommended medicine does not come in the form of taken by mouth
2. When the person vomits often, cannot swallow, or is unconscious
3. In certain unusual emergencies and special cases

Question 2

What is true about injections?

Answer 2

Many children and people become ill, disabled, or die as a result from unnecessary injections. It is more dangerous to inject medicine than to take it by mouth.

Question 3

You should not inject when__

Answer 3

1.If you can get medical help quickly
2. Give an injection for a sickness that is not serious
3. Give injections for a cold or flu
4. A medicine that is not recommended for the illness you want to treat
5. Unless your needle has been boiled or sterilized
6. Unless you know and take all the recommended precautions

Question 4

What medicines should you not inject?

Answer 4

1. Vitamins
2. Liver extract, vitamin B12, and iron injections
3. Calcium
4. Penicillin
5. Penicillin with streptomycin
6. Chloramphenicol or tetracycline
7. Intravenous IV solutions
8. Intravenous medicines

Question 5

What is true about IV solutions?

Answer 5

Only should be used for severe dehydration and only when someone is trained.
Can cause infections and death when not done correctly.

Question 6

When should you not give a medicine?

Answer 6

If the person has hives(patchy/swelling in skin), rash, difficulty breathing, signs of shock, dizzy, vision problems, back pain, etc.

Question 7

When do rashes or hives appear?

Answer 7

Few hours or up to several days after injection.

Question 8

What can cause abscesses?

Answer 8

When a needle is dirty. It’s a pocket of pus can give children a fever. It eventually does burst.

Question 9

How do you prepare a syringe for injection?

Answer 9

1. take syringe and boil needle for 20 minutes
2. pour out water without touching needle/syringe
3. put the needle/syringe together only touching the base of the needle and button of the plunger
4. clean the ampule of distilled water well and then break off
5. fill syring and don’t touch outside of ampule
6. rub the rubber of the bottle with a clean cloth with a wet alcohol or boiled water
7. inject the distilled water into the bottle with powdered medicine
8. shake until powder dissolves
9. fill again
10. remove all air from syringe

DON’T touch needle with anything not even alcohol pad