Important complications of general anaesthesia Pain Nausea and vomiting - up to 30% of patients Damage to teeth - 1 in 4,500 cases Sore throat and laryngeal damage Anaphylaxis to anaesthetic agents - figures such as 0.2% have been quoted Cardiovascular collapse Respiratory depression Aspiration pneumonitis - up to 4.5% frequency has been reported; higher in children Hypothermia Hypoxic brain damage Nerve injury - 0.4% in general anaesthesia and 0.1% in regional anaesthesia Awareness during anaesthesia - up to 0.2% of patients; higher in obstetrics and cardiac patients Embolism - air, thrombus, venous or arterial Backache Headache Idiosyncratic reactions related to specific agents, eg malignant hyperpyrexia with suxamethonium, succinylcholine-related apnoea Iatrogenic, eg pneumothorax related to central line insertion Death
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:07:43 +0000
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