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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.