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When administering medications, we also need to be completely conversant with the mode of administration, or route. A very sad case involved a young boy called Wayne Jowett who died as a result of being given his medication intrathecal ‘ITH’ instead of intravenously (which is written as ‘IV’).

If you saw the route written as ‘ITH’ on a prescription chart, what do you think this would mean? Let's look at this and other abbreviations that you may encounter.