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...
by SmartTots | Dec 7, 2015 | News
The Wall Street Journal, DEC. 7, 2015 More hospitals evaluate spinal anesthesia for surgeries that last 1½ hours or less Lisa and Mike Barr chose to have their infant, Mira, undergo spinal anesthesia during surgery, a new approach to anesthesia that leaves...
by SmartTots | Dec 6, 2015 | News
San Francisco – November 10, 2015 – SmartTots today released a supplement to their recently updated Consensus Statement. Immediately following the announcement of the secondary outcomes from the clinical trial, General Anesthesia Compared to Spinal Anesthesia (the...
