COMPLICATIONS OF GENERAL ANAESTHESIA
After anaesthesia.
1. Nausea and vomiting.
2. Persisting sedation: impaired psychomotor function.
3. Mucus plugging of airways, atelectasis and
pneumonia, especially after prolonged anaesthesia.
4. Organ toxicities: liver, kidney damage.
5. Nerve palsies—due to faulty positioning.
6. Emergence delirium.
7. Cognitive defects: prolonged excess cognitive
decline has been observed in some patients,
especially the elderly, who have undergone general
anaesthesia, particularly of long duration.
