needle size, IM injection neonate

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Hello,

I am a nursing student with an assignment and my book seems worthless. What size needle is used for an IM injection for a neonate? Specifically, the injection is the initial Vit. K injection.

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Thanks!

Anaicca

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

not larger than a 25ga. 27 would be better.

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Specializes in NICU, CVICU.

25 ga. here too. (we don't have 27s) but definitely nothing larger than a 25.

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Specializes in NICU.

Agree with the above posters.

The exact size we use is 27 gauge, 1/4 inch long. Of course we don't go all 1/4 inches in on all the babies (depends on the infant's size).

This is the sized used for all our injections - vitamin K, vaccines, lovenox, and antibiotics.

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Specializes in Neonatal.

yep 27 gauge here also.

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Specializes in Med-Surg and CCU/ER.

we use 25 guage without going in all of the way

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Specializes in NICU (Level 3-4), MSN-NNP.

We just finished a trial of new 30 g, 1/4 in needles that are replacing our 27g for all IM injections. We love them!!

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