Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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Recent studies have shown that the number of medication errors increases in relation to the number of orders that are verified per pharmacist, per work shift.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Spanish water dog (Perro de agua español).
Release of ordered water favors formation of an enzyme-substrate complex