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Amount of leakage associated with injections of insulin medium
| Injection technique | Injection volume (μl) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | 400 | 600 | |
| Abdominal | |||
| Angled | 2 ± 3 | 2 ± 6 | 2 ± 3 |
| Vertical | 2 ± 3 | 1 ± 7 | 3 ± 5 |
| Thigh | |||
| Angled | 4 ± 8 | 3 ± 7 | 5 ± 7 |
| Vertical | 7 ± 12 | 11 ± 18 | 6 ± 11 |
Data are means ± SD. 10 μl is an equivalent volume to 1 unit of insulin. All injections were applied with pinched skin.
