Aspirate w/B-12

Patuba

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When you aspirate with B-12 in the syringe how can you tell if you draw back blood and am shooting in a blood vessel? Besides looking for the air bubble I mean.


Also, what happens if you inject into a blood vessel? I've always heard not to do it but never what happens if you do.
 
Patuba said:
When you aspirate with B-12 in the syringe how can you tell if you draw back blood and am shooting in a blood vessel? Besides looking for the air bubble I mean.


Also, what happens if you inject into a blood vessel? I've always heard not to do it but never what happens if you do.

You can tell by the level of resistance. B12 IV isn't going to kill you. It's oil-based you'd rather not shoot IV.
 
Blood vessel is rather ambiguous, this can refer to a vein or an artery.

If you shoot oil into a vein, you will probably not die but you will feel very sick and might collapse and/or pass out. The oil is carried towards the heart, gets diluted with more and more blood, and finally expelled from the blood stream by the body. The blood that would be aspirated into the syringe from a vein would be dark, purplish red. It would travel into the chamber with no force.

If you shoot into an artery, and I strongly emphasize the if because I really don't think many people could accomplish this, you better be riding in an ambulance already because you will almost certainly die. The oil is carried away from the heart, passing through smaller and smaller arteries and finally into capillaries. This is where the oil's trip ends, as it clogs the capilaries near the part of the body where you injected. As your circulatory system shuts down in this area of the body, you have a heart attack. Cause of death, cardiac arrest. The blood that would be aspirated into the syringe from an artery would be bright, vivid red. It would literally explode into the chamber with the force and rythym of you heart beat.

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