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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Fatal fungal infections may be able to resist newer antifungal drugs. Globally, fungal infections are often fatal due to the lack of access to multiple antifungals, which may be required to be utilized in combination. Single antifungals may not be enough to stop a fungal infection from causing the death of a patient.
Most strokes are caused when blood clots move to a blood vessel in the brain and block blood flow to that area. Thrombolytic therapy can be used to dissolve the clot quickly. If given within 3 hours of the first stroke symptoms, this therapy can help limit stroke damage and disability.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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