by SmartTots | Jun 27, 2016 | Research Articles
Danton Char MD, Chandra Ramamoorthy MBBS* and Lisa Wise-Faberowski MD 26 MAY 2016 Abstract As physicians and caregivers of children with congenital heart disease, we are aware of the increasing need for procedures requiring anesthesia. While these procedures may be...
by SmartTots | Jun 27, 2016 | Research Articles
Lianyan Huang1, Joseph Cichon2, Ipe Ninan3 and Guang Yang1,* Science Translational Medicine 22 Jun 2016: Vol. 8, Issue 344, pp. 344ra85 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf715 Abstract Accumulating evidence has shown that repeated exposure to general anesthesia during...
by SmartTots | Jun 21, 2016 | News
by Ron Litman, DO, Medical Director of Institute for Safe Medication Practices I recently received a call from a father whose four-year-old daughter was scheduled to receive general anesthesia for a surgical procedure expected to last about two hours. He was concerned...
by SmartTots | Jun 19, 2016 | Research Articles
Single exposure appears to cause no cognitive harm in healthy children, but continued research needed in other scenarios San Francisco, CA (June 17, 2016) A recent study concluded that very young, healthy children undergoing short surgical procedures requiring a...
by SmartTots | Jun 10, 2016 | News
Importance Exposure of young animals to commonly used anesthetics causes neurotoxicity including impaired neurocognitive function and abnormal behavior. The potential neurocognitive and behavioral effects of anesthesia exposure in young children are thus important to...
