background: hepatitis b virus is one of the most common causes of chronic liver diseases. vaccination is the best way of prophylaxis and is of utmost importance. this study was conducted to compare the prophylactic effect of intradermal and intramuscular injection of hepatitis b vaccine. methods: a blind randomized clinical trial was performed among subjects who presented to the infectious dise...

Intra-umbilical injection of oxytocin has been used to hasten placental separation in retained placenta. A randomised controlled trial was done on 35 consequent women who fulfilled the criteria for retained placenta at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Ipoh Hospital. Nineteen patients who were recruited into the study group received intraumbilical injection of 301U oxytocin in 27mls sa...

Accumulation of continuous life stress (chronic stress) often causes gastric symptoms. Although central oxytocin has antistress effects, the role of central oxytocin in stress-induced gastric dysmotility remains unknown. Solid gastric emptying was measured in rats receiving acute restraint stress, 5 consecutive days of repeated restraint stress (chronic homotypic stress), and 7 consecutive days...

Intramuscular injection pain can create a negative experience for both patients and nurses performing the application. It has been recently become more important to reduce anxiety caused by in nursing care due prominence of concept quality health services. This study was conducted investigate effect manual pressure applied before ShotBlocker on satisfaction associated with intramuscular injecti...

The history of oxytocin in obstetrics varies from a very liberated use without almost any fear for danger or disadvantages to an almost complete condemnation of the use of this drug. Oxytocin was especially discredited by the intramuscular route of administration. On the other hand caused the intravenous administration by Infusion pump a very liberated use of this drug finally resulting in the ...

background: intramuscular injection is one of the effective methods of drug administration. yet the procedure is painful and avoided if at all possible. this study examines the effectiveness of simultaneous rhythmic breathing and z – track method in prone position with foot internal rotation on reducing the pain of intramuscular injection. methods: this quasi experimental (before and after) stu...

pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone was studied in buffalo calves (bubalus bubalis) after single intravenousand intramuscular administration of 10 mg/kg body weight. the drug concentrations in plasma samples weremeasured by high performance liquid chromatography with uv detection. following intravenousadministration, the drug was rapidly distributed (cpo: 106.5 ± 9.64 μg/ml; t1/2α: 0.09 ± 0.01 h; v...

OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacies of an intramuscular stimulation technique and 0.5% lidocaine injection to trigger points in myofascial pain syndrome. PARTICIPANTS Forty-three people with myofascial pain syndrome of the upper trapezius muscle. INTERVENTIONS Twenty-two subjects were treated with intramuscular stimulation and another 21 with 0.5% lidocaine injection at all the trigger poi...