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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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Normal urine is sterile. It contains fluids, salts, and waste products. It is free of bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.