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General Anaesthesia
Complications
- direct trauma mouth / pharynx
- inherited disorders
- malignant hyperpyrexia
- psuedocholinesterase deficiency
- idiosyncratic / allergic
- minor - post-operative nausea and vomiting
- major
- cardiovascular collapse
- respiratory depression
- halothane-induced jaundice
- slow recovery from anaesthetic
- drug interactions
- innapropriate choice of drugs / dosage
- inadequate reversal
- 'Awareness' during anaesthetic
- Disordered fluid balance
- Hypothermia
- long operations with extensive fluid loss
- large volume transfusion of cold blood
- Inadvertent trauma
- initiation of pressure sores
- pressure injury to nerves
- diathermy pad burns
- corneal abrasions
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