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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
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.
The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
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.