Yes: Yes, you can die from any surgery, as all surgery carries known risks and known complications.
Answered 7/23/2013
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What kind of surgery: There are many kinds of neck surgery. Death from "major" cervical spine surgery is rare, <<<1% in young to 1% in the elderly. Death from complication of the actual surgery is rare & more likely to be from a cardiac complication, stroke, blood clot, pneumonia, anesthesia, & allergic reaction. Your surgeon works with a good eri-operative team to keep risk of serious complications close to nil.
Answered 10/25/2013
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Potentially: The incidence of mortality with most neck surgeries varies by the procedure being done. All that being said, even the safest surgeries have a low but real risk of death, whether that be from an anesthetic, medical, or surgical complication. In the typical spinal surgeries we do on the neck, the mortality is significantly less than one in one thousand cases, so it is exceedingly rare.
Answered 5/15/2017
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