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FDA Provides Consumer Update on Anesthesia Safety in the Young Brain

by SmartTots | Aug 7, 2013 | Research Articles

When infants or young children need surgery, does anesthesia affect their developing brains? With more than 1 million children under age 4 requiring anesthesia for surgery in the United States each year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other health...

Safety first, safety at early age: The quagmire of neurotoxicity in pediatric anaesthesia

by SmartTots | Jul 25, 2013 | Research Articles

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, July 25, 2013. S Bala Bhaskar
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary, Karnataka, India Introduction Millions of surgeries and procedures are performed world-wide in children...

Ketamine as Anesthetics can Damage Children's Learning and Memory Ability

by SmartTots | Jul 19, 2013 | Research Articles

Science Codex, July 19, 2013 Abstract Recent studies have found that anesthesia drugs have neurotoxicity on the developing neurons, causing learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Ketamine is commonly used in pediatric anesthesia. A clinical...

Ketamine as Anesthetics can Damage Children’s Learning and Memory Ability

by SmartTots | Jul 19, 2013 | Research Articles

Science Codex, July 19, 2013 Abstract Recent studies have found that anesthesia drugs have neurotoxicity on the developing neurons, causing learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Ketamine is commonly used in pediatric anesthesia. A clinical...

Long-term effects of neonatal single or multiple isoflurane exposures on spatial memory in rats

by SmartTots | Jul 10, 2013 | Research Articles

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford , UK ; Glickenhaus Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA., July 2013. Murphy KL, Baxter MG....
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