Hello,

I feel compelled to write about my experience with doing direct IV just to calm
any fears some of you may have. I have only done it 5 times now, and have
probably made many mistakes, but the one I'm going to talk about here is this.
On my third application I accidentally forgot to turn on the regulator, I have
since put up a procedure list to check off. So I filled the syringe with 10cc's
of ambient air. I pushed it in and thought something was funny as the vein got
very large. As I was turning everything off I saw what I had done and got a bit
fearful from hearing all the talk of embolisms. I waited an hour or so and
nothing, absolutely nothing happened. So I investigated a few pathologists
sites and found out that to cause an embolism one must inject at least 200 cc's
of air. Which of course there aren't even syringes that large. I would never
do that again, but if it were to happen I wouldn't have the fear I did that day.
I hope this helps anyone having trepidations about this useful form of using
ozone in certain situations.

Edy