Can you die from getting general anesthesia?

Verry, very rare: Anesthesia has become one of the safest specialties in medicine. This is due in part to their medical school training and the advances in monitoring technology and pharmacology. For the average healthy patient have a low risk surgical procedure. The anesthesia is safer than the car ride to the hospital statistically.

Possible? Rare: It is extremely unlikely that a generally healthy patient having minor surgery (e.g. Middle-aged person with high blood pressure having hernia repair) would die from general anesthesia performed by trained clinicians in a modern facility. It is so unlikely that we are not sure of the exact risk, but we think it is 1 in 250000 anesthetics.

Rare but possible: The risk of dying under general anesthesia is thought to be less than one in 350, 000. In fact the number is so small we can not adequately measure it. I often tell patients that they are more likely to die from driving to the hospital than from the general anesthesia. Hope this helps.

Yes: Anesthesia mortality over that last 50 years has gone from low to EXTREMELY low. In the wrong/poor hands, anything is possible, but, simply put death under anesthesia is about 10 times less than death when driving a car, and you don't ever think about that, do you?