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Did you know?
Common abbreviations that cause medication errors include U (unit), mg (milligram), QD (every day), SC (subcutaneous), TIW (three times per week), D/C (discharge or discontinue), HS (at bedtime or "hours of sleep"), cc (cubic centimeters), and AU (each ear).
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.