Here Mr Zaman, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, discusses the risks associated with planned planned surgery and their prevalence.
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Are there any risks to an arthroscopy? So risks, I mean like most operative procedures, there are risks of infection, bleeding, nerve injury or much less than one percent. The risk of any untoward anesthetic event and usually, and this has been looked at extensively, so in somebody who's coming in for planned or elective surgery, the risk of any serious general anaesthetic risk in that sort of age group is much less than one in 10,000. So there are the operative risks, which are very low, and then there are the anaesthetic risks, which are normally quite low as well in this sort of group of planned surgery.
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