The phrase "anesthetic death" refers to a situation where a person dies because of complications that arise when they are given anesthesia, which is a medicine used to make a person unconscious during surgery. Full definition
However, many experts put the risk of anesthetic death as less than the risk of driving to and from the hospital to have the anesthetic procedure. (vcahospitals.com)
We have detected liver disease and cancer in patients just by running pre-anesthetic blood tests and were able to avoid likely tragic anesthetic deaths in these patients because of this knowledge. (topazvet.com)
An older study suggests that anesthetic death among cats is rare, but not as rare as that reported for humans or dogs.2 (iheartcats.com)