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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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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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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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