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echoangle ◴[] No.43618988[source]
Does anyone know how something like this is injected? It has to be close to the heart so it’s probably not going into the bloodstream. And you can’t really inject something precisely into the heart itself while it is pumping, right? And do you just aim by hand or is there some apparatus that does the alignment so you hit a specific location and depth?
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1. mathieuh ◴[] No.43619310[source]
I know basically nothing about this area so take all this with a large grain of salt (or rice), but my understanding is they can go through the femoral or brachial vein to inject things directly into the heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripherally_inserted_central_...