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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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.
About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.