What are potential complications of anesthesia?
Anesthesia is extremely safe due to advances in patient monitoring and improved anesthetic agents. Serious complications occur in less than one in 100,000 patients. More common problems that can occur include postoperative nausea and sore throat. We use a regimen of several anti-nausea agents that has been shown to reduce postoperative nausea to less than five percent. We minimize the incidence of sore throat by using a small endotracheal tube with a low cuff inflation pressure. We take great care to avoid other infrequent complications including dental damage, nerve injury, and cardiovascular problems.
