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.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
