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Can you hit a vein or artery if you've been injected im and would you know?
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It would uncommon to hit an artery. Rarely a small vein may be injured. If a hematoma (black and blue swelling) appears a vein may have been injured. Bleeding from an artery would be brisk and pulsing but that is rare from an IM injection
Answered 6/27/2021
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