What will happen to your body under general anesthesia?

General Anesthesia: You're totally unconscious and immobilized and you don't feel, sense or remember anything that happens during the anesthesia. Your vital systems are continuously monitored while you're under. The anesthesiologist will turn off the anesthetic drugs and you will gradually wake up.

General anesthesia: A nice simple answer is your body will be completely paralysed. You won't be able to breathe on your own ergo requiring the need to connect a breathing machine to you to help you to breathe. In your state of paralysis, your surgeon will be able to do his work easily. You will be able to sleep w/o the need to be concerned or worried about what is going on.

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.