General anaesthesia is actually somewhat dangerous.
Your chance of dying from anaesthesia is around 1 in 100,000 - 185,000. While it may seem like a safe number, it's orders of magnitude higher than winning a major lottery.
That number also doesn't include medical fuckups during anaesthesia, like overdose, airway obstruction. In that case the number shoots up to 1:2500 - 1:5000.
When having staples inserted (and also removed a year later) into the growth plates in my knees, I was given the option of having my legs numbed too for pain relief. I'm glad I took that option now - unless it was post-op only.
From the second op, I had a huge black bruise on my thigh in the shape of a hand print. I couldn't imagine the pain if I'd have woken during the cause of that.
Your chance of dying from anaesthesia is around 1 in 100,000 - 185,000. While it may seem like a safe number, it's orders of magnitude higher than winning a major lottery.
That number also doesn't include medical fuckups during anaesthesia, like overdose, airway obstruction. In that case the number shoots up to 1:2500 - 1:5000.
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/95.long
1.5 people in 1000 wake up, so the pain shock alone can kill you.
Dental anaesthesia is known to kill, around 2 children per year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/dental-sedation-chi...