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Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.