Can too much anesthetic given to person with high blood pressure cause a stroke.?

Answer 1

I don't think so. It is much more likely that the stroke was going to happen anyway. There are many causes of strokes, and remember too that most people having surgery aren't very well, and are having surgery to try to make them better. If someone isn't well or has been seriously injured, problems such as strokes or heart attacks are more likely to happen.

Under anaesthetic, the anaesthetist continually monitors the patient's blood pressure and if it is too high or too low, they administer medication to stabilise it.

An anaesthetic is not just one drug. They first give you a drug to knock you out, and then they give you other drugs to keep you under anaesthetic. They correct any physical reactions that are not normal using drips or drugs. The patient is connected to monitors which the anaesthetist and the anaesthetic nurse concentrate on very attentively. At times the anaesthetist will decide that the patient isn't coping with surgery and they will tell the surgeon to stop the procedure and the patient then usually goes to Intensive Care until they are strong enough to be taken back to the operating theatre. If a patient had a stroke in theatre, the anaesthetist would notice straight away, and may advise that the patient should be taken to ICU.

But the anaesthetic itself is very unlikely to cause the stroke.

Answer 2

Yes