Tuesday, July 14, 2009

How to inject a person...

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Too many people think an injection is a painful experience, but it need not be if the person giving it follows a few simple guidelines. Refer to the illustrated page for clarification.

Steps

  1. Know that a hypodermic needle is nothing more than a precision-tapered steel tube that has been bonded onto a steel or plastic funnel. Notice how the needle tapers and keep this in mind when next you inject someone. Before you do any of the following make sure you wear disposable gloves to protect from infection.
  2. Before you even think of injecting, inspect the needle and ensure that it is sharp and that the point is not damaged in any way.
Intradermal or Subcutaneous Injection
  1. Disinfect the area around the intended site of injection with alcohol or whatever your particular establishment uses and do the same for your fingers and thumbs.
  2. Charge the syringe with the correct quantity of the substance to be injected and discard the drawing-up needle. Fit a new, sharp needle onto the syringe and hold the syringe about 20 to 25 mm (3/4 to 1 inch) from the front of the barrel, where the needle has been fitted onto it, between the thumb and forefinger of your working hand.
  3. Gently grasp the skin around the area to be injected with your "off" hand. Do not pinch!
  4. Lift the skin up and notice the way the grain of the skin runs.
Intramuscular Injection
  1. Grasp the flesh, starting with your fingers about 30mm (11/2 inches) apart and draw it together into a ridge.
  2. Rotate the syringe so that the taper of the needle is on one side: it must not be on top or beneath the needle.
  3. Insert it quickly, smoothly and surely into the skin and continue forward until the needle has penetrated to the desired depth.
  4. Release the skin/muscle now and use the thumb and forefinger of your "off" hand to hold the front of the syringe, so that your working hand can move back to the plunger.
  5. Pull back on the plunger to ensure that you have not hit a blood vessel. If the syringe does not draw up blood, slowly depress the plunger. Beware: some of the powder suspensions, notably the penicillin derivatives, are thixotropic and block the needle solidly when pressure is applied. The only solution here is to use a thicker needle. The oily injectables tend to be viscous and must be infiltrated slowly, to give the tissue enough time to disperse them.
  6. Once the dose has been administered, press down over the site of the injection and withdraw the needle quickly, but gently.

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

I want to be a politician

If you ask school going kids in Karachi or in any other city of Pakistan about their career aspirations, I can bet you’ll find a good percentage wishing to see themselves as Engineers and doctors. Then there will be some young bright students in the Clifton or Defence area who would (where the parents have inculcated in their kids the) wish to enter business, that’s what their parents have always pushed them for (promoted in). All these young brains hear on the dining table is how fascinating business is. Their parents have been prudent to some extent because that’s where you’ll find easy money; just kidding. People in business disciplines, marketing specially J (no hard feelings for the marketing maniacs) are always critisized by their engineering counterparts as doing nothing and making twice the money as they do themselves. The easy money part surely won’t be true but you can’t decline the fact that there is more money in business.

Well, here we’ve left a very special distinguished class of students who will be hard to find in Pakistan. It’s because they are studying in Harvard and Oxford, but they are very much Pakistani because they will eventually come back to Pakistan to take over the charge of the country. These kids belong to the elitist class, and their parents are the cleverest of all because they teach their children to enter a profession which many school going students, living in Pakistan, perhaps don’t even imagine. This profession, which is filled with glamour, power and money, is unfortunately accessible only to a few. But for those who have access to it, this is the best they can have.

Just imagine the beauty of this profession, whereas a bulk of our Pakistani brothers and sisters want to leave Pakistan and settle abroad, the few fortunate people who have access to this profession want to leave abroad and come back to Pakistan. Anyhow, the most amazing part of this profession still remains. You don’t have study rocket science, or be the brightest student in class to get into this profession. You just have to be a genius of the other kind. If you belong to this class, you don’t even have to go to Harvard or Oxford. All you need is a Bachelor in Arts, and you’re ready for the most exciting career in Pakistan.

Mom, I want to be a politician!!

By_ Prof.M.KAMRAN MUMTAZ