Do you recommend anesthesia for someone with high blood pressure?

Depends: Emergency? Generally treat the high blood pressure and do elective surgery. We have great agents to control if we must do emergency surgery!

Anesthesia high BP: There is no reason you can't have anesthesia as long as your blood pressure is treated and under control. Generally, we worry most about your diastolic blood pressure, the lower of the 2. High pressures put you at risk for stroke and heart attacks. As long as your diastolic blood pressure is below 110 mm hg, the anesthesiologist should be able to control it during your surgery.

Anesthesia: It depends on your type of surgery and how bad is your hypertenson. Generally speaking your anesthesiologist will control your blood pressure during procedure with various medications, although the risk exist but dont worry... We deal with it everyday !

Blood pressure: Is relatively easy to control with intravenous medications by the anesthesiologist. If your blood pressure though had been high for a long period of time and has caused other problems, e.g., cardiac or renal, that may make the surgery and anesthesia more dangerous.

Yes: It is best if the patient is on antihypertensives and the blood pressure is under good medical control. Sometimes though you have no choice, you have to proceed with an emergency surgery with poorly controlled blood pressure.

No: Before undergoing anesthesia, medical conditions need to be optimized. So your blood pressure issues need to be brought under control by your primary care physician, just as your diabetes, or a myriad of other conditions would need to be. With correct management, blood pressure can be brought under control so that you may have safe anesthesia.