Whether a cough can be operated under general anesthesia depends on the type of surgery and the cause of the cough, and the specific decision needs to be made in accordance with medical advice. 1. Emergency surgery: If the patient’s life is in danger and requires emergency surgery, general anesthesia should be performed immediately, regardless of whether the patient has a cough and the severity of the cough; 2. limited surgery: when the patient cough, will affect the patient’s recovery from surgical diseases and is not caused by surgical diseases, such as cough is caused by lung infection, you can first anti-infective treatment, to be infection control after general anesthesia surgery; when the patient’s cough and is caused by surgical diseases, such as cough is caused by lung cancer, need to carry out radical surgery for lung cancer, can be preoperative preparations for the operation after general anesthesia; 3. Elective surgery: general anesthesia surgery can be performed after controlling the patient’s cough symptoms and after sufficient preoperative preparation. Cough whether general anesthesia surgery, should be under the guidance of the doctor to choose, cough causes different, to the general anesthesia surgery risk is also different, need to be in the doctor’s comprehensive assessment of the choice of suitable for the patient’s individualized treatment.