by SmartTots | Jan 4, 2019 | Research Articles
We thank Drs Ritchie‐McLean and Wilmshurst for their comments regarding our study entitled ‘The impact of general anesthesia on child development and school performance: a population‐based study’. The authors suggest that residual confounding has the potential to...
by SmartTots | Jan 4, 2019 | Research Articles
Millions of children undergo anesthesia annually and many of them are younger than 3 years old. Clinicians and parents frequently ask the question: is anesthesia safe for the developing child and is there an age range that is associated with a higher risk of...
by SmartTots | Nov 13, 2018 | Events
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by SmartTots | Nov 1, 2018 | Research Articles
The primary objective of this study was to describe in a geographically defined population the incidence of procedures requiring general anesthesia up to the child’s third birthday, and the patient characteristics associated with receiving these procedures. A...
by SmartTots | Nov 1, 2018 | Research Articles
Abstract BACKGROUND: The majority of studies evaluating neurocognition in humans who had procedures under anesthesia early in life found long-term deficits even though the typical anesthesia duration normalized to the human life span is much shorter than that shown to...
