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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.