PATIENT INFORMATION

Frequently Asked Questions

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You’ve Got Questions?—We’ve Got Answers!

Because anesthesia is not a routine part of most people’s lives, many are understandably apprehensive about undergoing it. This, of course, can lend rise to a wide variety of questions covering everything from safety to how it’s administered. We want our patients to be as comfortable as possible prior to their surgery and believe that apprehension can be eased with knowledge. We’ve put down the most frequent questions we receive during the course of our work below. If you have additional questions, please feel free to
contact us and we will try to answer your questions as best as possible.

You’ve Got Questions?—We’ve Got Answers!

Because anesthesia is not a routine part of most people’s lives, many are understandably apprehensive about undergoing it. This, of course, can lend rise to a wide variety of questions covering everything from safety to how it’s administered. We want our patients to be as comfortable as possible prior to their surgery and believe that apprehension can be eased with knowledge. We’ve put down the most frequent questions we receive during the course of our work below. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us and we will try to answer your questions as best as possible.

Serious complications or death due to anesthesia have become exceptionally rare due to advances in medicine in technology. New medications, monitoring equipment, and anesthesiology training has helped make anesthesia up to 20 times safer than it was 50 years ago and the risk of death from anesthesia complications is thought to be at about one out of every 200,000 patients, with mortality primarily affecting older patients with significant health complications.