I am no where near advanced enough in my medical knowledge to comment to this idea… but i do know this -
It takes a while for blood to clot inside a syringe with a minimal amount of air in it. I have aspirated when doing IV many a time and lost the vein - fishing inside the arm/leg for minutes trying to find a vein again… (usually in other people as i am extremely vascular) the blood has not clotted with a good few minutes inside the syringe - upto 4 or 5 mins as a max i would suggest though.
This was using the microfine monoject slin pins with a water based drug and as little air as possible in the barrel. A large syringe with more air would be different of course.
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
Oh yeah, I totally agree that this is hardcore stuff, and NOT to be used unless you are 100% confident (and that confidence must be grounded in reality. Isn’t that right Boxer666? )
In fact I would rather it were NOT a sticky. Just something sinking into the depths of the post library, to be utilised by only a ‘chosen few’, lol.[/quote]
I completely agree, I don’t want to be held responsible for any T-members’ self-medicating shenanigans!
This is just my own observation/theory, but;
When blood is taken via a regular syringe (e.g. at the doctor’s office) it can sit quite happily for 5mins without clotting. It is then transferred to a vacutainer, and obviously no clotting occurs within.
However, if being transfered from a regular syringe into a blood vessel rather than a anti-coagulant lined tube, I’m not so sure that the coagulation cascade (gently initiating within the syringe) would so happily halt/reverse itself. If memory serves, once the casacde has reached a certain stage, a clot will form, unless reversed by our own fibrinolytic enzymes (unreliable) or external antiocagulants.
Of course, maybe a 300mg dose of aspirin for 2-3 days prior might be of aid… What do you think?
To be honest, I’m not sure. The swelling looked pretty much identical, just smaller.
I suppose that you could insert the needle to a reference point (e.g halfway down), withdraw some pus (indicating you are indeed in the abscess) then use this as a guide for injecting your AB blood.
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Do you think you could have comfortably and safely injected 1ml of ABloaded blood back into the abcess?
Bushy[/quote]
I probably could have done. 1ml would have been easily handled, and maybe with some prophylatic aspirin and the above “abscess loaction technique” I would have felt confident enough to do so.
I like the brainstorming Bushy, interesting stuff here!
[quote]Hagar wrote:
I hear augmentin is the best oral AB for an abcess. It a combo of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium. Works much better than amoxicillin alone. [/quote]
That’s the stuff I’m taking - Augmentin/Co-Amoxyclav. I have to agree it is extremely effective.
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