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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.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.