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For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Children of people with alcoholism are more inclined to drink alcohol or use hard drugs. In fact, they are 400 times more likely to use hard drugs than those who do not have a family history of alcohol addiction.
There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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