Flu and colds are back with a vengeance

Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by nradov on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:43PM (#33551999)

One mouse study found that vaccine injection without aspiration did significantly increase the risk of adverse cardiac events. That research hasn't been reproduced in humans but this area deserves further investigation. At least early in the pandemic, US healthcare providers weren't routinely aspirating.

https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab941

https://doi.org/10.1007/s43440-022-00361-4

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-141119

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by mschuster91 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#33552762)

> At least early in the pandemic, US healthcare providers weren't routinely aspirating.

... What? Here in Germany, that's like one of the basic things that people who deal with needles on anything alive learn.

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by taolegal on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:18PM (#33554336)

yea it doesn't happen much at all in the US, tons of normal ppl were hired to inject people and AFAIK that was never really part of instruction

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by nradov on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:29PM (#33554492)

I don't know the injection practices in Germany. The WHO and US CDC no longer recommend aspiration prior to intramuscular injection, mainly over pain management concerns. (I'm not claiming this is a good idea, just pointing out the current injection protocol.)

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/admi...

In practice there is a wide variance between US healthcare providers depending on where they work and how they were trained. Some aspirate, some don't, some try but use the wrong technique.

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