Hi @doneuro,

Atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT) is the most common type of supraventricular tachycardia.
Though no surgical procedure is completely risk-free, the incidence of general anesthesia complications is relatively rare now. Most likely your doctors have or will be discussing your health history with the anesthesiologists. When patients who have tachycardia undergo a surgical procedure that requires general anesthesia, it is beneficial to have a cardiac anesthesiologist present (you might want to ask your doctor about that).
To avoid any complications of anesthesia many factors are taken into consideration – skill and knowledge of anesthetist/anesthesiologist, choice of sedative drugs, presurgery medications. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/anesthesia/about/pac-20384568

I encourage you to go through these articles which discuss the effect of anesthesia on the heart:
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505762/
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613596/

There are a few Connect members that I’d like to introduce you to. Meet @1997ta @guardian @cyndiblaw @sue225 @danab @dorothydavidson @aparr and Mentors @hopeful33250 @predictable. I’m hoping they will join in with their thoughts. May I ask what concerns you have, @doneuro?

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