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What will happen to your body under general anesthesia?
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A lot: General anesthesia affects every organ systems in your body. It affect your brain, it depressed your heart, it lower blood pressure, it changes your breathing patterns etc...This is why general anesthesia is administered by a physician anesthesiologist who can compensate for the effects of general anesthesia on all of your organs. Today general anesthesia is very safe.
Answered 11/29/2014
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