Safeguarding Infant Brains: A Multidisciplinary Challenge—Results of a Survey, Update on Current Scientific Evidence, and Recommendations on How to Deal with Possible Anesthetic Drug Neurotoxicity

  Abstract Introduction Potential neurotoxicity of anesthetic drugs has been among the most intensively discussed issue in pediatric anesthesia for more than 10 years. It remains unclear how far this discussion has reached the European pediatric surgical...

Anesthetic induced neurotoxicity in children

Numerous studies have questioned the safety of anesthetics on the developing brain given that many data support anesthetic neurotoxicity in infants [1, 2, 3]. In this issue of the Korean Journal of Anesthesiology [4], we discuss studies that found that...