AhMadKooL
New member
Aspiration isn't a myth bro. You might get lucky and not catch an emboli from a water based but if you mess up with an oil base your in a world of trouble. I am telling you this as a paramedic, the nurses you see are opening up themselves to a huge law suit when the cause the first pulmonary air emboli. Every paramedic and nurse I know still aspirate even in situations when time isn't a given. Some of us have been doing it so long that we actually do aspirate with out making it as noticible. Bro it takes a second or two to aspirate to be safe and a life time to recover from a mistake, play it safe in an already dangerous game.
To the main topic of the thread like the nurse said you more than likely hit a vein and went through and through, while attempting to reach the muscle. As long as there is no red stuff in the container when you aspirate your okay.
I agree aspirating isn't a myth.. Its essential.. especially when the person injecting isn't trained and he doesn't know where the main veins/arteries are.