Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
Summarize what you have learned about parenteral routes and equipment by filling in the blanks in the table below.
| Intradermal |
| Subcutaneous | Intramuscular | |||
a. Injected into (name tissue layer) | _____________ |
| _____________ | _____________ | |||
b. Type of syringe | _____________ |
| _____________ | _____________ | |||
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| or | _____________ |
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c. Needle length | _____________ |
| _____________ | _____________ | |||
d. Needle gauge | _____________ |
| _____________ | _____________ | |||
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| _____________ | |||
e. Angle of entry | _____________ |
| _____________ | _____________ | |||
Intradermal Subcutaneous Intramuscular
a. skin, dermis subcutaneous, fatty tissue muscle
b. tuberculin standard hypodermic standard hypodermic
or insulin
c. 3/8-inch 3/8 – 5/8-inch 1 – 1½ -inch
d. 25–26G 24–26G aqu. 21–23G
visc. 18–20 G
e. 15° 45° or 90° 90°