Heavy bleeding after Sublocade injection
Hey guys, I’m a new nurse working psych. My facility runs a MAT program where we give Sublocade to inmates at the jail. I gave my first Sublocade injection at the jail today, and when I withdrew the needle, a lot of blood spurted out…like enough to leak down his side, the table, and his shirt. I applied pressure immediately and it stopped quickly. (For those unfamiliar with Sublocade, it is a very viscous sub-q injection given in the abdomen with a large bore needle). Now I’m terrified that I’ve somehow hit a blood vessel on this guy, and that the Sublocade will somehow get into his bloodstream and cause a serious reaction instead of forming the depot like it’s supposed to. I know I injected into subq tissue, but I’m thinking it might have bled so much because I went in at more of a 90 degree angle than the recommended 45 degrees and the needle is so large. I feel like such an incompetent idiot bc I know this isn’t supposed to happen, and I’m worried about the patient (I have no way to check on him). Will he likely be ok?