Usually conscious sedation or nothing at all. General anesthesia is done for certain situations. Like when the patient is in too much pain to be still for it or when they are very claustrophobic and refuse to do it any other way.

hmm iv had heaps of anasestises and had worse flus then her geez every body

i don't think the do general anesthesia for mri. i'm pretty sure they just do conscious sedation.

I guess you can call all bad things that can possibly happen during surgery "reactions to anesthesia." But usually "reaction" means a drug allergy. The featured story I promise you was not a drug reaction. It was pneumonia. The actual drugs used are very safe. Unfortunately anesthesia is like the airline industry: when something bad happens you always hear about it. People get the impression that's it's very unsafe when that's not true.

i went for a tubial 1 1/2 YR AFTER CHILD BIRTH simple DAY SURGERY, YEH RIGHT! 45 MINS. LATER I WAKE UP COUGHING UP BLOOD AND BARELY ABLE TO BREATHE. THE CAUSE WAS FLIUD IN THE LUNGS DUE TO THE ANESTHSIA, YEP! ANESTHSICS DID IT!IN THE HOSPITAL WITH MEDS THAT WAS VERY SCARY I TELL YOU. I WAS PUT ON OXYGEN BECAUSE MY LEVEL WAS BELOW 50% WHICH BELOW 88% WAS NOT GOOD, SO THATS ALL BULL ABOUT ANESTIC REACTIONS

This patient did not have a "reaction to anesthesia." Sounds like she had a preexisting infection. Maybe being on the vent made things worse, maybe it didn't. No way to know. That said, people with sniffles undergo anesthesia daily and do just. This particular story tells you absolutely nothing about the safety of anesthesia.-from someone in the business.

Hey MJM, +1 to everything you said.

I wasn't even given a local anaesthetic for my circumcision...because of the risks of toxicity.

Then you can't be very good at what you do.Anyone here who wishes to check the dangers of anaesthetics only has to use GOOGLE.It is very simple. Perhaps this person has a fetish for knocking people out? You've got to wonder!My aunt on the hand, nearly died aged 18 due to an allergic reaction to general anaesthesia.GOOGLE it guys.

i just did a job shadow with an anethesologist. I KNOW THE FACTS!!!!!! You are just trying to scare people.

It is lovely when people who are in the wrong start talking nonsense. I have never stated I am a doctor, and I am not. This is a lie.The fact remains - people are allergic to anaesthetics, and people die from them.Some people are allergic to penicillin, others are fine with it.This person evidently hasn't even done basic research. He simply here to cause trouble.

YOU ARE THE THICKO. I DOUBT U KNOW WHAT HYPERPYREXIA is. Give me the prefix and the suffix meaningS!You PHONY FAKE DOCTOR!

It is far from uncommon to have problems with a general anaesthetic. GOOGLE IT.Malignant hyperpyrexia is just ONE example.Are you that THICK you can't RESEARCH.Thicko.

Let me see your M.D degree or are you a phony fake doctor?

I have NO goal.Some people are ALLERGIC to them.Some people DIE.It sometimes affects the heart if people have anaemia or other blood problems.Just because YOU were alright, doesn't mean EVERYONE will be alright.GET IT?

I AM not a dumb idiot. Have you ever talked to an anesthiologist? I have. YOUR GOAL IS TO SCARE PEOPLE- YOU dumb idiot.

I'm no doctor but here is my take on this. So a girl has a cold and is put under to get an MRI. Two days later she has a fever and is having trouble breathing. The doctors and symptoms are indicating the Flu and I very seriously doubt that anesthesia gave her the Flu. So what happened? How did she get better? Was she treated for the Flu? How does this woman know that anesthesia caused her daughters illness? Allergic reaction? Seems to me she got the Flu at an inopportune time. Thats it

No it isn't. Babies usually cannot have them.There are such things as ALLERGIES.People can be ALLERGIC to anaesthetics.You are a dumb idiot.

maybe the girl had a very mild reaction to the anesthesia

general anesthesia is my worst fear