According to the source I sited above it seems permanent loss of sensation or motor function could potentially affect up to 15,000 a year so not out of the realms of possibility.
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From the data I can find, it seems that epidurals are administered in roughly 1 in 4 hospital births in the UK.
In 23-24 there were 545,149 deliveries in the NHS in the UK, that would equate to roughly 130,000-140,000 epidurals administered per year in the UK. This only includes those procedures directly related to hospital births, not the many people who have recurring epidural administered steroids or other treatments.
Serious complications (blood clots, infections, meningitis) are seen in about 1 in 145,000+ cases.
So suffice to say, epidurals though not entirely risk free (like any medical intervention) they are incredibly safe.
If you’re in another country then the specific numbers may vary but will likely be in the same ballpark.
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Something like the retroTINK?
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There are drugs to help lessen the symptoms of the flu, paracetamol in particular, but having antibiotics to cure a viral disease will not help in any statistically significant way, barring the placebo effect.
It’s believing that playing easy listening radio at a forest fire helps it burn out quicker. Sure there may be times when it appears like it’s helped, but in reality it has done nothing.
No he isn’t, he’s a very naughty boy.
Oh in that case I’m sure pencils would be fine.
One thing you definitely don’t want when your floating through microgravity a thousand miles from the ground is fragments of graphite flying into your incredibly sensitive electrical equipment.
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If you placed me at the beginning of the industrial revolution I could from available materials build a working telegraph and telephone system and do pretty well for myself.
Prior to that I could be a pretty good peasant.
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The chicken in this product is 95% scraping from carcasses, connective tissue and skin. But the 5% of it that’s actually breast meat is 100% chicken breast meat.