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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.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.