Two major literature review articles and three editorials by experts on the effects of anesthesia in the developing brain were published in a recent issue of Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), to address a warning issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2016 noting that repeated or lengthy use of general anesthesia and sedation drugs may affect the development of children’s brains. The warning was based primarily on results from studies of laboratory animals that may not translate to humans.
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- Cognitive Impairment and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Induced by Repeated Short-Term Sevoflurane Exposure in Early Life of Rats
- Comparison of neurotoxicity of dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant in brachial plexus block in rats of different age
- Effect of multiple neonatal sevoflurane exposures on hippocampal apolipoprotein E levels and learning and memory abilities
- Lipid profiling as an effective approach for identifying biomarkers/adverse events associated with pediatric anesthesia
- Influence of nitrous oxide on granule cell migration in the dentate gyrus of the neonatal rat