Afraid of needles? Help is on the way
Thursday, August 19th, 2004 at 5:59 pm
Aww and the fun of my peds rotation is gone… poking the kiddies with needles… 
Ha ha….
A Franklin company will begin selling a futuristic device next month that painlessly injects medications through microscopic pores in the skin — holes created by low-frequency vibrations instead of high-anxiety needles.
The hand-held, ultrasonic device applies sound waves to the skin for 15 seconds, disrupting a protective membrane to allow fluids to flow in or out. The openings allow larger molecules, including those of many drugs, to pass through quickly. After 24 hours, the skin returns to normal.
Called SonoPrep, the $2,000 device was approved Tuesday by the US Food and Drug Administration, its manufacturer, Sontra, announced yesterday. For now, it will be used to quickly anesthetize skin with lidocaine cream — in five minutes instead of the current one hour — to prepare patients, especially children, for painful procedures, including needle pricks and the insertion of catheters and IVs.
From: boston.com
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Well they are too late for me–already suffered through all those shots!