Injection accidental

In experimental work, some accidental exposures, or in the administration of medicine, the dose may be a certain quantity of the chemical administered at one time, such as in a pill, an injection, or an accidentally swallowed poison. In industry, time is a factor in most exposures, and the dose is the result of both the concentration of the toxic agent and the duration of the exposure. 

In a report from the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, pediatric nurses have reported a much higher frequency of complications from IM injections than that observed in the adult population. Twenty-three percent of pediatric nurses surveyed had observed complications (local pain, abscess, hematoma) versus a rate of 0.4% reported in adult patients [86]. Serious complications, such as paralysis from infiltration of the sciatic nerve, quadriceps myofibrosis, and accidental intra-arterial injection, are usually the... 

Interaction of chlorine with methane is explosive at ambient temperature over yellow mercury oxide [1], and mixtures containing above 20 vol% of chlorine are explosive [2], Mixtures of acetylene and chlorine may explode on initiation by sunlight, other UV source, or high temperatures, sometimes very violently [3], Mixtures with ethylene explode on initiation by sunlight, etc., or over mercury, mercury oxide or silver oxide at ambient temperature, or over lead oxide at 100°C [1,4], Interaction with ethane over activated carbon at 350°C has caused explosions, but added carbon dioxide reduces the risk [5], Accidental introduction of gasoline into a cylinder of liquid chlorine caused a slow exothermic reaction which accelerated to detonation. This effect was verified [6], Injection of liquid chlorine into a naphtha-sodium hydroxide mixture (to generate hypochlorite in situ) caused a violent explosion. Several other incidents involving violent reactions of saturated hydrocarbons with chlorine were noted [7],... 

There are many circumstances when a single-dose intravenous (IV) study can provide useful information for example, if the intended treatment route is intraper-itoneal (i.p.), or if the product will be administered to an open wound or injected into a muscle or a tumor, it might accidentally enter a blood vessel, and the knowledge gained from an IV study would be of value as well as one by the clinical route. Hence, if the intended clinical route is not IV, the absence of an additional study with IV dosing would require specific justification. 

The two pumps within each recovery well are controlled by a series of electrodes that are positioned at predetermined levels within the well. The water pump utilizes a power interrupter probe to detect free hydrocarbon. This probe is positioned above the water intake and is adjusted to turn off the pump automatically when the hydrocarbon interface approaches the pump intake. This prevents the lower pump from accidentally pumping LNAPL to the injection wells. 

Chemicals reach us through various media. By media we mean the vehicles that carry the chemical and that get it into contact with the body. Thus, food, beverages, air, water, and soils and dusts are the principal environmental media through which chemical exposures take place. Direct contact with the chemical, as with cosmetics applied to the skin, or household products accidentally splashed into the eye, may also occur, in which case the cosmetic or household product may be said to be the medium through which exposure occurs. Exposures to medicines occur by ingestion of tablets containing them, by injection, and by other means. Sometimes workers come into direct contact with the substances they are using. 

Any biological deterioration of cellulose acetate membranes is always by "accidental". To prevent this kind of deteriorations, chlorine injection to feed water is common practice. Inadequate control of chlorine injection may result in the enzymic deterioration of cellulose acetate membrane. 

This is usually done only in rabbits. A single injection is made into the central artery of an ear. The contralateral ear artery is given the control material. This is to assess the effects of a subcutaneous or intravenous injection when it is accidentally injected into an artery, as drugs are rarely given by this route. 

Methadone, used as an analgesic, may be dispensed in any licensed pharmacy. Methadone dispersible tablets are for oral administration only. This preparation contains insoluble excipients and therefore must not be injected. It is recommended that methadone dispersible tablets, if dispensed, be packaged in child-resistant containers and kept out of the reach of children to prevent accidental ingestion. 

Hematopoietic stem cells are used to treat people whose own blood-forming cells fail because of a rare condition called aplastic anemia, or to help people who have been accidentally exposed to very high doses of irradiation. Hematopoietic stem cells are most often used as part of the treatment for certain forms of cancer. Sometimes cancer patients are given very high doses of irradiation and/or chemotherapy drugs that destroy the blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow. Transplants with the patient s own blood stem cells that were removed before the treatment, or stem cells from a healthy donor, allow the patient to recover. The transplant process is very simple The cells in a salt solution are slowly injected into a vein just like a blood transfusion. If the blood stem cells come from a donor, then the donor and the patient must share certain inherited proteins to make sure that the donor s immune system cells will not attack the treated patient. 

Some simple but powerful solutions have come from this industrial model of quality assurance. For example, just the removal of concentrated potassium chloride solutions from hospital wards can prevent a toxic dose of potassium from being accidentally injected intravenously. Making the color of the tubing different may prevent epidural lines and IV lines being interchanged so that medication intended to go into a vein does not go into the epidural space,or vice versa. 

The greatest hazards of accidental overdosage with epinephrine and norepinephrine are cardiac arrhythmias, excessive hypertension, and acute pulmonary edema. Large doses of isoproterenol can produce such excessive cardiac stimulation, combined with a decrease in diastolic blood pressure, that coronary insufficiency may result. It also may cause arrhythmias and ventricular fibrillation. Tissue sloughing and necrosis due to severe local ischemia may follow extravasation of norepinephrine at its injection site. 

The rate of absorption of a local anesthetic into the bloodstream is affected by the dose administered, the vascularity at the site of injection, and the specific physicochemical properties of the drug itself. Local anesthetics gain entrance into the bloodstream by absorption from the injection site, direct intravenous injection, or absorption across the mucous membranes after topical application. Direct intravascular injection occurs accidentally when the needle used for infiltration of the local anesthetic lies within a blood vessel, or it occurs intentionally when Udocaine is used for the control of cardiac arrhythmias. 

Despite being a wonder drug against malaria, quinine in therapeutic doses can cause various side-effects, e.g. nausea, vomiting and cinchonism, and in some patients pulmonary oedema. It may also cause paralysis if accidentally injected into a nerve. An overdose of quinine may have fatal consequences. Non-medicinal uses of quinine include its uses as a flavouring agent in tonic water and bitter lemon. 

Intra-arterial injection of thiopentone is a serious complication as crystals of the thiobarbiturate can form in the arterioles and capillaries, causing intense pain, vasoconstriction, thrombosis, and even tissue necrosis. Accidental intra-arterial injections should be treated promptly with intra-arterial administration of a vasodilator (papaverine 20 mg) and lignocaine (lidocaine) Note leave the needle/cannula in the artery), as well as a regional anaesthesia-induced sympathectomy (stellate ganglion block, brachial plexus block) and anticoagulation with intravenous heparin. The risk of ischaemic damage is much higher with a 5% solution and the use of this concentration is not recommended. 

The only really safe way of injecting drugs is to use a completely new set of works every time. If this is not possible, advise clients to keep their works safe and not mix them up with those belonging to other people. When they have finished with the works they should destroy them in a way that no one else can use them or be accidentally pricked by the needle. This is especially important if there are children around. They should not mix their fix in a spoon that someone else has used, or flush out their works with water which someone else has already used to clean theirs. 

One patient died because 20 units of insulin was abbreviated as 20 U, but the U was mistaken for a zero. As a result, a dose of 200 units of insulin was accidentally injected. 

Health hazards from drug residues in food depend on the frequency and degree of human exposure. Increase in the degree of human exposure occurs when injection sites are accidentally consumed. Continuous exposure is more probable when a side or quarter of a contaminated food animal is purchased by a consumer for deep-freeze use. Basic antibiotics such as chloramphenicol, erythromycin, tylosin, and oleandomycin, are more likely to accumulate in tissue at a higher concentration than in plasma due both to ion trapping, which results from a pH difference between blood and tissue, and to the innate lipid solubility of the compounds (1). A factor with the potential to reduce the drug residues intake is that most animal tissues are cooked before eating, which may decrease 269... 

Millions of people with type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus inject themselves daily with pure insulin to compensate for the lack of production of this critical hormone by their own pancreatic fi cells. Insulin injection is not a cure for diabetes, but it allows people who otherwise would have died young to lead long and productive lives. The discovery of insulin, which began with an accidental observation, illustrates the combination of serendipity and careful experimentation that led to the discovery of many of the hormones. 

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