What are the chances of going into cardiac arrest from surgery?

November 8, 2019
Asked By:Imaginative1840 in White Plains, NY

I'm doing my research on plastic surgery complications and came across a few horror stories of people dying during it or afterwards. Although a lot of these cases were with people much older after liposuction or tummy tuck, there is one recent case of a girl my age in Italy who was left brain dead after her oxygen supply was somehow interrupted or that she had a bad reaction to drugs used to lower her blood pressure. I'm 21, don't smoke and have a good BMI but could this happen to me?

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