by SmartTots | Jun 25, 2015 | Research Articles
Abstract BACKGROUND: The incidence, type and severity of anesthesia-related critical incidents during the perioperative phase has been investigated less in children than in adults. AIM: The aim of the study was to identify and analyze anesthesia-related critical...
by SmartTots | Jun 23, 2015 | Research Articles
Abstract Electroencephalogram (EEG) approaches may provide important information about developmental changes in brain-state dynamics during general anesthesia. We used multi-electrode EEG, analyzed with multitaper spectral methods and video recording of body movement...
by SmartTots | Jun 16, 2015 | News, Research Articles
Research Priorities SmartTots acknowledges insufficient human data exist to determine whether anesthetics induce neurotoxicity in the developing brain. SmartTots is dedicating its initial research investigations to elucidating whether a signal suggesting anesthetics...
by SmartTots | Jun 10, 2015 | Research Articles
Cochrane Database Syst Rev., June 2015. Jones LJ, Craven PD, Lakkundi A, Foster JP, Badawi N Abstract BACKGROUND: With improvements in neonatal intensive care, more preterm infants are surviving the neonatal period and presenting for surgery in early infancy....
by SmartTots | Jun 10, 2015 | Research Articles
DNA Cell Biol, June 2015. Sun W, Pei L Abstract Although propofol exerts toxic effects on the developing central nervous system (CNS), it remains a first-choice anesthetic in the pediatric population. Astrocytes represent a major glial cell population whose role in...
