The anesthesiologist is who keeps you alive during surgery and they monitor your vital signs.
Once you've become unconscious, the anesthesiologist uses monitors and medications to keep you that way.
Machines also sometimes keep you alive during surgery and prevent you from going into shock and heated air keeps you from going into hypothermia.
In rare cases, though, something can go wrong.
About once in every 1,000 to 2,000 surgeries, patients may gain some awareness when they should be unconscious.
The riskiest surgery is brain surgery and open heart surgery.
Brain surgery is one of the most riskiest surgeries.
The most riskiest surgery is a Craniectomy surgery.
The Craniectomy surgery involves removing a fraction of the skull to relieve pressure on the brain and is one of the highest risks surgeries.
Regular brain surgery is also the next highest risk surgeries there is.
And then Open Heart Surgery is also on the list of being the highest and most riskiest surgeries.
Other high risk surgeries include.
Thoracic aortic dissection repair.
Oesophagectomy.
Spinal osteomyelitis surgery.
Bladder cystectomy.
Gastric bypass.
Separation of conjoined twins.
Some other high risk surgeries include.
Small bowel resection (removal of all or part of a small bowel).
Gallbladder removal.
Peptic ulcer surgery to repair ulcers in the stomach or first part of small intestine.
Removal of peritoneal (abdominal) adhesions (scar tissue).
Major surgery is any invasive operative procedure in which a more extensive resection is performed, e.g. a body cavity is entered, organs are removed, or normal anatomy is altered.
In general, if a mesenchymal barrier is opened (pleural cavity, peritoneum, meninges), the surgery is considered major.
While any surgical procedure has risks, bariatric surgery has been found to be one of the safest surgeries to undergo.
It is considered as safe or more safe when compared to other elective surgeries.