List specific actions and recommendations technicians can follow during bovine injections to
minimize tissue trauma.
To minimize tissue trauma during injections, the technician should follow beef quality
assurance recommendations. These include:
? Using muscles on the neck cranial to the shoulder for all intramuscular injections.
? Administering all subcutaneous injections cranial to the shoulder.
? Using 18-16g × 1" needles for vaccinations.
? Administering a maximum of 10cc per injection site.
? Properly restraining animals during injection.
? Ensuring that injection sites are at least 4 inches apart.
? Keeping vaccination bottles (or any drug) clean, and using a new sterile needle when
drawing product from the bottle.
? If an option is available, administering injections subcutaneously instead of intramuscularly.
? Using clean sharp needles and changing needles every 8 to 10 injections when processing
large numbers of cattle.
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