by SmartTots | Jul 25, 2024 | Clinical Articles, News, Research Articles
Using a Medicaid database from 2001 – 2018, researchers undertake an observational study that takes advantage of a natural experiment associated with appendicitis to determine whether anesthesia and surgery in childhood were specifically associated with...
by SmartTots | Jun 17, 2024 | Clinical Articles, News, Research Articles
Data gathered from the original Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Bronchoalveolar Lavage (ACFBAL) trial provided a unique, optimal opportunity to examine the long-term effects of multiple exposures to general anaesthesia in a randomised controlled trial setting. The...
by SmartTots | May 24, 2024 | Clinical Articles, News, Research Articles
The association between prenatal exposure to general anaesthesia for maternal surgery during pregnancy and subsequent risk of disruptive or internalising behavioural disorder diagnosis in the child has not been well-defined. Columbia researchers, led by Caleb Ing,...
by SmartTots | Mar 1, 2024 | Clinical Articles, News, Research Articles
Anesthesia makes painful or uncomfortable diagnostic and interventional health care procedures tolerable, however, it may also disrupt key cellular processes in neurons and glia, harm the developing brain, and thereby impair cognition and behavior in children. Many...
by SmartTots | Apr 28, 2023 | News
The TREX (Toxicity Remifentanil DEXmedetomidine) Trial Investigators are pleased to announce the completion of enrollment of the 450 trial subjects. The TREX Trial is a multicenter, multinational study of two anesthetic regimens for prolonged anesthesia in infants and...
by SmartTots | Oct 12, 2022 | News
During the 2000’s, preclinical research studies began to find that laboratory animals exposed to commonly used anesthetic and sedative drugs early in life showed changes to the brain and nervous system that interfered with memory and learning. Additional research...
