The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
