by SmartTots | Jun 10, 2016 | News
Importance Exposure of young animals to commonly used anesthetics causes neurotoxicity including impaired neurocognitive function and abnormal behavior. The potential neurocognitive and behavioral effects of anesthesia exposure in young children are thus important to...
by SmartTots | Apr 26, 2016 | News
The GAS trial Andrew Davidson and colleagues’ GAS trial (Jan 16, p 239)1 reports outcomes that are different to those initially registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00756600). There was one prespecified primary outcome, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of...
by SmartTots | Apr 5, 2016 | News
Lancet Correspondence from Weiss M, Becke K, Hansen TG, Engelhardt T. This letter represents a consensus response study from the Safe Anesthesia For Every Tot (SAFETOTS) initiative which addresses the need for teaching, training, education, supervision, and research...
by SmartTots | Mar 9, 2016 | News
Research suggests that general anesthesia can be harmful to infant brains. By using a local anesthetic administered by spinal, doctors at UVM Medical Center operated on 12-day-old Mira Barr who was awake, comfortable and even gets a little sleepy. UVM Medical Center...
by SmartTots | Jan 18, 2016 | News
Does general anesthesia have any long-term effects on learning, memory, or behavior in infants and children? Dr. Paul Yost, the Past President of the California Society of Anesthesiologists, speaks to the public on Straight Talk MD and answers the question:...
by SmartTots | Jan 9, 2016 | News
EDITORIAL T. G. Hansen and P.-A. Lonnqvist Very few issues (if any) within paediatric anaesthesia have, during the past roughly 15 years, caused so much concern and emotional disturbances as a plethora of animal studies that repeatedly have shown that exposure to most...
