Intradermal injections are somewhat difficult to correctly administer because the skin layers are so thin that it is easy to accidentally punch through to the deeper subcutaneous layer.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
Structure and basic function of a typical vertebrate neuron and associated glial cells.
Patient with typical rheumatoid arthritis contractures.
A typical open-end wrench. Note the size difference on each end and that the head is angled 15 ...