Are bone marrow needles scary?

In clinical work, this examination is often rejected by patients or their families, thus affecting the timely diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Because they worry that bone piercing is to take out the bone marrow, taking out the essence of the human body, will greatly hurt the vitality, have adverse effects on human health, or even serious harm. Some people misunderstand bone piercing as waist piercing, believing that the piercing may affect the brain. These are false claims with no scientific basis. This is mainly due to the patient's lack of understanding of the necessary bone puncture misunderstanding.

The site of bone puncture is usually the anterior superior iliac spine, posterior superior iliac spine or manubrium sternum, which will not cause damage to important organs at all. Since the puncture is performed under local anesthesia, the pain of the patient is similar to that of normal intramuscular injection. Bone marrow is an important part of adult hematopoietic, constantly updated every day, 0.2 ~ 5ml for testing, for the human body will not have any impact, not to speak of damage to the body. Of course, bone piercing examination is not suitable for all patients and there are contraindications. Bone puncture examination is forbidden for hemophiliacs, who lack coagulation factors and may cause local hematoma after puncture. If there is local pyogenic infection at the puncture site, it is necessary to select other non-infected sites for puncture, or perform bone puncture after the local infection is completely controlled.

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