Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
Did you know?
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
Did you know?
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Did you know?
The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
Did you know?
The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
