artery/vein (be aware!)

[slamthesnow]

how can you tell if its artery or vein ?
be careful guys, once you hit the artery, there comes the gangrene,and there goes your body parts.
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as far as my little research artery is not blue but red ? fck.. I dont know.. Is there anyone with any kind of information ?

[sterckxke]

arteries are mostly deep.
arteries have a pulse.(veins don't)
if you hit an artery and register the blood will be bright red.
There's a lot of pressure in the artery.So the plunger can be forced back.
If you've hit an artery stop injecting,pull out the
needlle and put some pressure on the site for at least 15mins.

Is there an artery close to the surface on the inner part of your arm on the opposite side to your elbow joint? Or is this just a larger thicker vein? I have shot into it a few times and not had any problems but I am getting worried now...


The blood in this one is usually a very dark, almost black red colour and it does not bleed any more when the needle comes out than any other vein.


Any one know?

[kailey_elise]

It's a vein. It's not very easy to hit an artery - usually you kind of have to hunt for them.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,courier,mono;">
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Dark blood = vein</span><br style="font-family: courier new,courier,mono;">
bright blood = artery.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,courier,mono;">
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If it registers dark, you're okay.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,courier,mono;">
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~</span>K.Elise</span></font>

[gremlin182]

Hmmm, SWIM knows ALL about this stuff. OK, Sterck's answer is dead on, so Ill just add to that and the rest:


You CANNOT see arteries by looking at your extremities with the naked eye, only veins are what you see. The arteries are where you feel a pulse, in the arm, the BRACHIAL A. runs between you bicept and tricept along the inner section (ventral aspect) of your arm, it then dives into the brachial fossa which is on the middle inner side of your elbow joint (ventral midpoint of arm), then it becomes the radial artery as it travels down the outside (lateral) of your forarm to your thumb. At these three point you can press in and feel a pulse, but dont use your thumb, you have a radial pulse in your thumb.


Now, if you ever hit an artery, two things can happen, 1) nothing, provided you have ultra purified your injection with a .22uM (micro) filter, and the sryinge and needle are new and sterile, or 2) the slighest bit of impurity in the injection will enter your arterial flow, and get lodgged in your capillary beds at the end of the arterial blood flow. The cap. beds are where oxygen exchange takes place for the body part in question, in this case, arms and legs. So If you hit an art. with a typical homebaked injection, you will feel intensive pain, and within about 1/2 to one hour, your extremity will start turning blue, and then gray, then you wont feel it, as it has died from clogged cap. beds, and no oxygen, sorry, but its off to the O.R. for an amputation.


Know that fragile veins, like on the back of the hands and feet, will burn and swell with injections, this doesnt mean you just hit an artery, it means dont use those sensitive veins if possible!

[elohim]

Just to throw in some information, often times the vein will register with fairly bright red blood. I don't know why, but it does happen from time to time.