“Can anesthesia give you pneumonia?”
I am a 32 year old male. I want to know if anesthesia can give you pneumonia?
5 Answers
Anytime your cough reflex is suppressed either by general anesthesia or excess pain medicines, your respiratory tract is vulnerable to aspiration and pneumonia.
Anesthesia itself does not give you pneumonia. However, if stomach contents are aspirated into the airway, a chemical pneumonia can develop with a potential infection of the lungs.
Anesthesia per se does not cause pneumonia, But the process I’m putting someone to sleep and incubating them can cause aspiration in people who have reflux or people who have not fasted for eight hours and this aspiration can lead to pneumonia which when it becomes Florida is called Mendelson’s syndrome.
Anesthesia itself can not give you pneumonia. But aspiration during intubation or extinction or any possibility of your procedure involved, can lead to pneumonia.
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