Is 7 Hours Under General Anesthesia Standard For Combination Procedures?

If you’re going to have prolonged operative procedures usually one shouldn’t do an outpatient procedure if it is longer than 4-6 hours. It also depends on your health status. Any longer than that, you should probably do less combination procedures or consider doing surgeries in a hospital for patient safety.

If you ask this question to 10 surgeons, they will give you 10 different answers depending on their preference and their practices.

General anesthesia for 7 hours should be just fine. Our anesthesia safety has improved over the years. Obviously there are no guarantees in any medical procedure. The longer you are "under", the longer your recovery will be in terms of recovery from the anesthesia, in terms of nausea, etc, but the safety will more than likely be fine, if you are a health individual. If you have a cardiac history, this will certainly be a factor.