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Carbamazepine can interfere with the results of home pregnancy tests. If you are taking carbamazepine, do not try to test for pregnancy at home.
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.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.