'intramuscular injection' is used instead of the 'subcutaneous injection' used for influenza vaccines. Libby Richards, an associate professor of nursing at Purdue University, explains why the ...

Intramuscular (IM) injections are used to deliver medication deep into your muscles. Your muscles have lots of blood flowing through them, so medications injected into them are quickly absorbed into ...

1 Department of Physiology, Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece 2 Department of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace 3 Medicine-Division of Endocrinology, ...