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Author Question: Which of the following statements about the progress of development is correct? (Read 22 times) |
When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Hippocrates noted that blood separates into four differently colored liquids when removed from the body and examined: a pure red liquid mixed with white liquid material with a yellow-colored froth at the top and a black substance that settles underneath; he named these the four humors (for blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.