What is a high pressure injection injury, and is it bad? (Spoiler: Yes. It's very bad).

Following our quinquepisodinal* tradition, Kacy explains high pressure injection injuries. You might have heard them called "grease gun injuries." In short, it's when a high pressure fluid squirts with such force that it cuts into your body and shoots that fluid into you. It's nowhere near as sexy as it sounds.

*I'm making this a word now.

Sources:

M.C. Cejin, A. Koyfman, B. Long, High risk and low incidence diseases: high-pressure injection injury, Am J Emerg Med, 88 (2025), pp. 120-125

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