Preventing Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration

A "needling" problem: shoulder injury related to vaccine administration.

A 22-year-old woman with no significant medical history developed acute left shoulder pain and severe restrictions in range of motion after a seasonal influenza vaccine injection. Imaging by MRI, approximately 8 weeks after the injection, and by ultrasound, approximately 9.5 weeks after the injection demonstrated contusions on the humerus, injury of the supraspinatus, and effusion in the subacr...

Vaccine administration: preventing serious shoulder injuries.

Erroneous administration of intramuscular vaccines, particularly above the deltoid muscle, can result in serious shoulder injuries and diminished vaccine efficacy.1 With few studies published addressing injection technique before 2002, inconsistencies arose regarding optimal vaccine administration, thus causing variations in current practice.2 We will examine cases of serious shoulder injuries ...

Preventing Paraffin-Related Injury

Paraffin (called kerosene in North America and other parts of the world) is the most commonly used fuel in ‎non-electrified dwellings worldwide. It is especially popular in Africa and South Asia. Although paraffin ‎offers many advantages-especially its comparatively low cost to produce-it poses two major risks of ‎injury. First, paraffin poisoning is common, either through ingestion or through ...

DTP vaccine related injury: an examination of proposed vaccine injury compensation legislation.

IV. Public Education Prior to Vaccine Administration ‡

One of the principal objectives of the Middletown Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Program was to achieve as close to 100 per cent vaccination of the selected age group as possible. We had hoped also to be able to determine whether the oral vaccine, because of its simpler and pleasanter mode of administration , would be accepted by families who had rejected or had been indifferent to Salk-type vaccine. ...