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Blood Clot Prevention: Injection. Your doctor has prescribed shots (injectable medicine) to prevent or treat blood clots. This medicine is an anticoagulant (an-tihko-AG-you-lent). Sometimes it is referred to as a blood thinner. Along with the anticoagulant medicine, your doctor may prescribe other methods to prevent blood clots.
This depends on the length of the needle you are using, the location chosen for the shot, and the size of the person being injected. Flu vaccine is given as an IM (intramuscâ¦ular) injection. For most people, a regular 25 or 22 gauge needle that is one inch or one and one half inches long is the proper size.