“Is anesthesia not safe after a certain age?”

Age has very little to do with the safety of anesthesia. Comorbidities such as heart disease, vascular disease, pulmonary disease and others result in increase risk for anesthesia.

At the age of 150, it becomes bad for you.

General anesthesia is safe for all ages with a couple of exceptions. Children under the age of five years may benefit from avoiding general anesthesia, if possible, until an older age because of a known risk of decreased learning ability, although no permanent injury or detriment has yet been detected. On the other hand, even 80- and 90-year-olds are candidates for general anesthesia to repair critical aortic stenosis, a valve lesion that leads to death without treatment.

Anesthesia has risk at any age. But there are more complications in elderly