by SmartTots | Nov 21, 2016 | Research Articles
Abstract During the Fifth Pediatric Anesthesia Neurodevelopmental Assessment Symposium, experts and stakeholders met to present and discuss recent advances made in the study of neurodevelopmental outcomes after exposure to anesthetic drugs in infants and children....
by SmartTots | Nov 21, 2016 | Research Articles
On April 16 and 17, 2016, the Pediatric Anesthesia and NeuroDevelopment Assessment (PANDA) study held its fifth biennial symposium at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York. Since April 2014 when the fourth symposium was held, the awareness of the...
by SmartTots | Nov 21, 2016 | Research Articles
Introduction to the Proceedings of the Fifth PANDA Symposium on “Anesthesia and Neurodevelopment in Children. READ MORE
by SmartTots | Oct 7, 2016 | Research Articles
Abstract The majority of commonly used anesthetic agents induce widespread neuronal degeneration in the developing mammalian brain. Downstream, the process appears to involve activation of the oxidative stress-associated mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. Targeting this...
by SmartTots | Oct 7, 2016 | Research Articles
Abstract A number of experimental studies have reported that exposure to common, clinically used anesthetics induce extensive neuroapoptosis and cognitive impairment when applied to young rodents, up to 2 weeks old, in phase of rapid synaptogenesis. Propofol is the...
