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When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.