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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.
Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.