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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.
In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.