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UTA 3632 Foundations Final Exam

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Clear Liquid Diet   Clear fat-free broth, bouillon, coffee, tea, carbonated beverages, clear fruit juices, gelatin, fruit ices, popsicles  
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Full Liquid Diet   As for clear liquid, with addition of smooth-textured dairy products (e.g., ice cream), strained or blended cream soups, custards, refined cooked cereals, vegetable juice, pureed vegetables, all fruit juices, sherbets, puddings, frozen yogurt  
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Pureed Diet   As for clear and full liquid, with addition of scrambled eggs; pureed meats, vegetables, and fruits; mashed potatoes and gravy  
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Mechanical Soft Diet   As for clear, full liquid, & pureed, with addition of cream soups, ground/finely diced meats, flaked fish, cottage cheese, cheese, rice, potatoes, pancakes, light breads, cooked vegies, cooked/canned fruits, bananas, soups, peanut butter, eggs (not fried)  
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Soft/Low Residue Diet   Addition of low-fiber, easily digested foods such as pastas, casseroles, moist tender meats, and canned cooked fruits and vegetables; desserts, cakes, and cookies without nuts or coconut  
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High Fiber Diet   Addition of fresh uncooked fruits, steamed vegetables, bran, oatmeal, and dried fruits  
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Low Sodium Diet   4-g (no added salt), 2-g, 1-g, or 500-mg sodium diets; vary from no added salt to severe sodium restriction (500-mg sodium diet), which requires selective food purchases  
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Low Cholesterol Diet   300 mg/day cholesterol, in keeping with American Heart Association guidelines for serum lipid reduction  
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Diabetic Diet   Nutrition recommendations by the American Diabetes Association: focus on total energy, nutrient and food distribution; include a balanced intake of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; varied caloric recommendations to accommodate metabolic demands  
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Potassium Normal Values   3.5-5 mEq/L  
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Sodium Normal Values   136-145 mEq/L  
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Chloride Normal Values   98-106 mEq/L  
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Total Calcium Normal Values   8.4-10.5 mg/dL  
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Magnesium Normal Values   1.5-2.5 mEq/L  
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Phosphate Normal Values   2.7-4.5 mg/dL  
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Bicarbonate (HCO3) Normal Values   Arterial 22-26 mEq/L  
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pH Normal Values   7.35-7.45  
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PaCO2 Normal Values   35-45 mm Hg  
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PaO2 Normal Values   80-100 mm Hg  
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O2 Saturation Normal Values   95%-100%  
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Urine Specific Gravity Normal Values   1.0053-1.030  
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Supported Fowler's position   head of the bed is elevated 45 to 60 degrees, and the patient's knees are slightly elevated without pressure to restrict circulation in the lower legs.  
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Supine Position   Patient rests on back. Shoulders are supported, and the elbows are slightly flexed to control shoulder rotation. A foot support prevents footdrop and maintains proper alignment.  
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Prone Position   Patient lies face or chest down. Pillow thin enough to prevent cervical fexion or extension and maintain alignment of lumbar spine. Ankles in dorsiflexion (using pillows or over mattress).  
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Side-Lying Position   Patient rests on the side with the major portion of body weight on the dependent hip and shoulder. 30-degree lateral position is recommended for patients at risk for pressure ulcers.  
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Sims' Position   Patient lies on side placeing the weight on the anterior ileum, humerus, and clavicle.  
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Autonomy   Ability or tendency to function independently.  
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Beneficence   Doing good or actively promoting doing good; one of the four principles of the ethical theory of deontology.  
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Nonmaleficence   Fundamental ethical agreement to do no harm. Closely related to the ethical standard of beneficence.  
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Justice   Ethical standard of fairness.  
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Fidelity   Agreement to keep a promise.  
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Deontology   Traditional theory of ethics that proposes to define actions as right or wrong based on the characteristics of fidelity to promises, truthfulness, and justice.  
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Health care proxy or durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC)   a legal document that designates a person or persons of one's choosing to make health care decisions when the patient is no longer able to make decisions on his or her own behalf.  
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Tort   Act that causes injury for which the injured party can bring civil action.  
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Negligence   Careless act of omission or commission that results in injury to another.  
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Malpractice   Professional negligence. Injurious or unprofessional actions that harm another.  
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Defamation of character   the publication of false statements that result in damage to a person's reputation. Includes Slander & Libel.  
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Slander   when one speaks falsely about another.  
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Libel   the written defamation of character (e.g., charting false entries in a medical record).  
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Assault   Unlawful threat to bring about harmful or offensive contact with another.  
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Battery   Legal term for touching another's body without consent.  
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False imprisonment   unjustified restraint of a person without legal warrant.  
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Identity confusion   when people do not maintain a clear, consistent, and continuous consciousness of personal identity.  
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Role conflict   when a person has to simultaneously assume two or more roles that are inconsistent, contradictory, or mutually exclusive.  
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Role ambiguity   unclear role expectations, which makes people unsure about what to do or how to do it, creating stress and confusion.  
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Role strain   combines role conflict and role ambiguity.  
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Role overload   having more roles or responsibilities within a role than are manageable.  
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Role performance   Way in which a person views his or her ability to carry out significant roles.  
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Matruational loss   Loss, usually of an aspect of self, resulting from the normal changes of growth and development.  
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Situational loss   Loss of a person, thing, or quality resulting from a change in a life situation, including changes related to illness, body image, environment, and death.  
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Actual loss   Loss of an object, person, body part or function, or emotion that is overt and easily identifiable.  
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Perceived loss   Loss that is less obvious to the individual experiencing it. Although easily overlooked or misunderstood, a perceived loss results in the same grief process as an actual loss.  
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Grief   Form of sorrow involving the person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occurs as a response to an actual or perceived loss.  
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Normal (uncomplicated) grief   a common, universal reaction characterized by complex emotional, cognitive, social, physical, behavioral, and spiritual responses to loss and death.  
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Anticipatory Grief   Grief response in which the person begins the grieving process before an actual loss.  
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Disenfranchised grief   Marginal or unsupported grief, when their relationship to the deceased person is not socially sanctioned, cannot be openly shared, or seems of lesser significance.  
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Ambiguous Loss   a type of disenfranchised grief, occurs when the lost person is physically present but not psychologically available, as in cases of severe dementia or severe brain injury.  
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Complicated grief   a person has a prolonged or significantly difficult time moving forward after a loss.  
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Exaggerated Grief   exhibits self-destructive or maladaptive behavior, obsessions, or psychiatric disorders. Suicide is a risk for these people.  
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Delayed Grief   A person's grief response is unusually delayed or postponed, often because the loss is so overwhelming that the person must avoid the full realization of the loss.  
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Masked Grief   a grieving person behaves in ways that interfere with normal functioning but is unaware that the disruptive behavior is a result of the loss and ineffective grief resolution.  
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Stages of Dying   denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance  
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Stages of Mourning   numbing, yearning and searching, disorganization and despair, and reorganization  
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Grief Tasks   Task I: Accept the reality of the loss. Task II: Experience the pain of grief. Task III: Adjust to a world in which the deceased is missing. Task IV: Emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life.  
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Rando's processes   recognizing the loss, reacting to the pain of separation, reminiscing, relinquishing old attachments, and readjusting to life after loss.  
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Dual Process model   describes the everyday life experiences of grief as moving back and forth between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented activities.  
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Antibiotic Intraoperative Effects   potentiate action of anesthetic agents  
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Anticoagulants Intraoperative Effects   Alter normal clotting factors and thereby increase risk of hemorrhage  
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Antiarrhythmics Intraoperative Effects   Can reduce cardiac contractility and impair conduction during anesthesia  
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Anticonvulstants Intraoperative Effects   Can alter metabolism of anesthetic agents after long-term use  
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Corticosteroids Intraoperative Effects   With prolonged use, cause atrophy of adrenal glands, which decreases body's ability to withstand stress  
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Insulin Intraoperative Effects   Need for insulin preoperatively is reduced because of fasting status  
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Diuretics Intraoperative Effects   Potentiate electrolyte and fluid imbalances  
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Antidepressants Intraoperative Effects   Increase the hypotensive effects of anesthesia  
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Isotonic excercise   cause muscle contractions and change in muscle length (e.g., walking, swimming, dance aerobics, jogging, bicycling)  
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Isometric exercise   tightening or tensing muscles without moving body parts (e.g., quadriceps sets, contraction of gluteal muscle)  
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Resistive isometric exercise   contracting muscle while pushing against a stationary object or resisting the movement of an object (e.g., push-ups, hip lifts)  
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Ligaments   bind joints & connect bones and cartilage  
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Tendons   connect muscle to bone  
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Friction   Effects of rubbing or the resistance that a moving body meets from the surface on which it moves; a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement.  
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Shear   Force exerted against the skin while the skin remains stationary and the bony structures move.  
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Lordosis   Exaggeration of anterior convex curve of lumbar spine. Congenital or temporary (e.g. pregnancy).  
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Kyphosis   Increased convexity in curvature of thoracic spine. Congenital, Rickets/Osteoporosis, TB of Spine.  
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Torticollis   Inclining of head to affected side, in which sternocleidomastoid muscle is contracted  
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Hypostatic pneumonia   Pneumonia that results from fluid accumulation as a result of inactivity.  
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Atelectasis   Collapse of alveoli, preventing the normal respiratory exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.  
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Four-point alternating gait   gives stability to the patient but requires weight bearing on both legs. Each leg is moved alternately with each opposing crutch so three points of support are on the floor at all times.  
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Three-point alternating gait   patient bears all of the weight on one foot. bears weight on both crutches and then on the uninvolved leg, repeating the sequence.  
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Two-point gait   at least partial weight bearing on each foot. patient moves a crutch at the same time as the opposing leg so the crutch movements are similar to arm motion during normal walking.  
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Swing-through gait   With weight placed on the supported legs, the patient places the crutches one stride in front and then swings to or through them while they support his or her weight.  
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PICOT   Patient population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Time.  
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-statin drug side effects   GI-related (n/v, flatulence, constipation), Myopathy (muscle aches & pains)  
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Enculturation   Socialization into one's primary culture as a child.  
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Acculturation   Process of adapting to and adopting a new culture.  
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Biculturalism   Identification equally with two or more cultures.  
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Assimilation   To become absorbed into another culture and adopt its characteristics.  
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Nonopiod analgesics   acetaminophen and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, e.g., aspirin & ibuprofen)  
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Opioid analgesics   Drug substance derived from opium or produced synthetically that alters perception of pain and that, with repeated use, may result in physical and psychological dependence (narcotic).  
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Adjuvants   variety of medications that enhance analgesics or have analgesic properties that were originally unknown  
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NSAID side-effects   gastrointestinal bleeding and renal insufficiency  
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Left-Sided HF s/s   First: fatigue, breathlessness, dizziness, confusion (result of tissue hypoxia). Then: pulmonary congestion with crackles in base of lungs, hypoxia, SOB on exertion, cough, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.  
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Right-Sided HF s/s   Weight gain, distended neck veins, hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, and dependent peripheral edema.  
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Cough suppressant risks   retention of pulmonary secretions, airway plugging, and atelectasis.  
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Hemoptysis   Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract.  
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Cascade cough   patient takes a slow, deep breath and holds it for 2 seconds while contracting expiratory muscles. Then he or she opens the mouth and performs a series of coughs throughout exhalation, thereby coughing at progressively lowered lung volumes.  
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Huff cough   stimulates a natural cough reflex and is generally effective only for clearing central airways. While exhaling, the patient opens the glottis by saying the word huff. With practice he or she inhales more air and is able to progress to the cascade cough.  
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Quad cough   for patients without abdominal muscle control (e.g., spinal cord injuries). While the patient breathes out with a maximal expiratory effort, the patient or nurse pushes inward and upward on the abdominal muscles toward the diaphragm, causing the cough.  
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Postural drainage   Use of positioning along with percussion and vibration to drain secretions from specific segments of the lungs and bronchi into the trachea.  
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Oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal suctioning is used when   the patient is able to cough effectively but unable to clear secretions by expectorating.  
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Orotracheal or nasotracheal suctioning is used when   a patient with pulmonary secretions is unable to manage secretions by coughing and does not have an artificial airway present.  
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Tracheal suction is used when   patient has an artificial airway uch as an endotracheal (ET) or tracheostomy tube.  
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Logroll   Maneuver used to turn a reclining patient from one side to the other or completely over without moving the spinal column out of alignment.  
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Hyperemia (abnormal)   Nonblanchable: Redness of the skin caused by dilation of the superficial capillaries. The redness persists when pressure is applied to the area, indicating tissue damage.  
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Hyperemia (normal)   Blanchable: Redness of the skin caused by dilation of the superficial capillaries. When pressure is applied to the skin, the area blanches, or turns a lighter color.  
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Onset   Time it takes after a medication is administered for it to produce a response  
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Peak   Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration  
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Trough   Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled dose  
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Duration   Time during which the medication is present in concentration great enough to produce a response  
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Plateau   Blood serum concentration of a medication reached and maintained after repeated fixed doses  
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# of drops per mL   15 drops (gtt)  
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# of mL per oz   30 mL  
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