Report #2840714

Received May 13, 2025

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Overview

Sex: Male
Age: 77 yrs
State: IL
Recovered: Recovered
Vaccinated: May 12, 2025
Onset: May 13, 2025
Days to onset: 1
Hospital days: —

Vaccines (1)

Type	Name	Manufacturer	Dose	Lot	Route / Site
VARZOS	ZOSTER (SHINGRIX)	GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS	1	mg5s9	IM / LA

Symptoms (1)

Needle issue

Symptom narrative

I had an incident yesterday when giving a shingrix injection. I reconstituted the vaccine normally. But when I went to inject the patient, once I inserted the needle I could not push the syringe to inject the immunization. There was pressure and I couldn?t get the syringe/medicine out. So I took the needle out and reinserted and had the same issue. I then told the patient I had an issue with the needle so I switched out the needle and that worked. The new needle/ third try went smoothly.

Lab data

None