Anesthesia has been a great advancement in medicine and has helped countless people through the most painful moments. General anesthesia refers to a state of reversible loss of consciousness and loss of pain sensation when anesthetic drugs are inhaled from the respiratory tract or injected intravenously. Local anesthesia only inhibits the nerve conduction in a certain area of the body and produces anesthesia. Usually people think that “local anesthesia” has less damage to the human body, but in clinical practice, many patients have a deep fear of general anesthesia and think that general anesthesia is unsafe, and their main concern before surgery is “Is general anesthesia safe? “Will I be stupid after I wake up?” and other related questions. According to statistics, 80%-90% of surgeries in the United States use general anesthesia, while the overall proportion in China is less than 50%. In addition to economic factors, the main reason is that patients and individual health care workers have too many misunderstandings about general anesthesia surgery. From a professional point of view: today’s general anesthesia is gradually using reliable and light anesthetic drugs, these drugs will be quickly cleared by the body after surgery, most patients can wake up immediately, general anesthesia itself will not cause damage to the patient’s brain, and patients will not have fear, depression and other psychological problems after surgery, compared to local anesthesia, the safety of general anesthesia is greater, people do not have to worry about it. Many patients and their families told me that during the preoperative talk, the anesthesiologist would inform them of a series of possible complications, and their hands would shake when they looked at so many scary results. In order to reduce this “scary” risk, the following points need to be made: Patient side: ① Please have good communication with your supervising physician. Provide a thorough medical history before surgery, tell your doctor what diseases you have had and what medications you have used, what chronic diseases you have, and whether you have been taking medications for a long time, so that your doctor has a good understanding of your past history. ② Actively cooperate to improve the preoperative examination. This is quite important because the examination can detect potential diseases that increase the risk of anesthesia, and timely management of these hidden problems can reduce the risk of anesthesia. Physician’s side: ① Preoperatively, fully understand the patient’s physical condition and make an accurate assessment of whether he/she can tolerate general anesthesia surgery. Promptly deal with newly discovered disease conditions and be given appropriate treatment measures to reduce the chance of possible complications. ②Strengthen intraoperative anesthesia monitoring and detect subtle changes at any time to ensure intraoperative safety. ③Strengthen post-operative post-awakening care. We want to avoid 1% of possible complications with 100% care, and hope that all patients undergoing general anesthesia surgery will pass through the surgery and postoperative recovery period successfully!