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What are the risks of going under general anesthesia?
Risks and complications from general anesthesia
- Heart attack, heart failure, or stroke.
- Increases or decreases in blood pressure.
- Pneumonia or other breathing disorders.
- Reactions to medicines used in the anesthesia.
- Muscle damage and a rapid increase in body temperature.
- Death.
What is the chance of a serious complication from anesthesia?
Anesthesia is very safe “In the 1960s and 1970s, it wasn’t uncommon to have a death related to anesthesia in every one in 10,000 or 20,000 patients,” he says. “Now it’s more like one in every 200,000 patients — it’s very rare.”
Can you breathe under anesthesia?
Do you stop breathing during general anesthesia? No. After you’re unconscious, your anesthesiologist places a breathing tube in your mouth and nose to make sure you maintain proper breathing during the procedure.
What are the dangers of general anesthesia?
Sore throat
What’s the risk of dying from general anesthesia?
An allergic reaction to the medications that are given during an anaesthetic.
Which risk is not associated with general anesthesia?
While anesthesia today is the safest it has ever been, even for the sickest patients, its administration is not without risks. The specific risks of anesthesia vary with the kind of anesthesia, type of surgery (elective or emergent), and patient specific factors, including age and pre-existing medical conditions.
Can you die from general anesthesia?
A general anaesthetic itself is very rarely the cause of death. The reasons why a person might experience harm or may die because of a general anaesthetic include: The risk of having a life-threatening allergic reaction is very low (less than 1 in 10,000) and most of those will recover completely.