Anesthesiologist Questions General Anesthesia

Do complications happen during surgery, due to anesthesia?

Is it possible to have a complication during surgery from general anesthesia? What could happen?

3 Answers

Complication pure due to anesthesia are not so common. First you can have complications during intubation. Then there are allergic and anaphillaxis.to anesthetic drugs specillaly relaxants. MH a genetic disorder with fever
In emergencies there are more risk of compmications
Sometimes
In general, if you are healthy, it’s safer than driving down the street. However, anything up to and including death could happen. No procedure is benign, we like to say.