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MEDICATION ERRORS

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  What is the definition of a medication error? "prescription error The term "medication error" refers to an incident that may be avoided that may result in improper pharmaceutical use or patient harm when the medication is in the hands of a healthcare provider, patient, or consumer.. Professional practise, health care items, methods, and systems, such as prescribing, order communication, product labelling, packaging, and nomenclature, compounding, dispensing, distribution, administration, Such events might have an impact on monitoring, use, and education.                                                 Prescription, dispensing, and administration errors all these are the examples of medicine errors. Every year in the United States, they hurt hundreds and thousands of individuals. However, the majorit...

A RARE UNUSUAL HEART DEFECT – CONGENITTALY CORRECTED TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES (CCTGA).

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  A rare congenital heart defect which is known as congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries causes the lower half of the heart functioning and pumping to be reversed and it has a variety of morphological presentations and is frequently asymptomatic. HOW DOES A HEALTHY/ NORMAL HEART FUNCTION? The typical human heart has two sides, blood from the body is pumped by the right side into the lungs. Blood is pumped out of the lungs and into the body from the left side. An atrium or the top chamber, and a ventricle or the bottom chamber are present on either side of the body. The atrium serves as the bloods reception area. The blood is forcefully pushed out of the ventricle entrance and exit. These valves let the blood enter the ventricle from one side and push it out to the other side, ensuring that blood only flows in a single direction. The lungs low pressure is achieved by the blood being pushed through each ventricle and valve. In order to move blood to the lungs...