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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
The “Infertility Belt” In certain countries in Central Africa, infertility rates are as high as 30%
Example of the Index to Diseases and Injuries.
Example of CPT conventions in the Index.
NCC MERP Index for categorizing medication errors.
Limiting factors restrain population growth
Conversion factors derivation.