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All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
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.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.