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...
by SmartTots | Oct 29, 2015 | News
Brief exposure to anesthetizing chemicals does not cause future neurological problems large study finds The Anesthesia Dilemma A recent study finds that brief exposure to anesthetizing chemicals does not cause future neurological problems. Early-life exposure to...
by SmartTots | Oct 22, 2015 | News
EDITORIAL Steven Roth, MD In this month’s issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Cheng et al.1 describe how isoflurane produces apoptosis in the retina in 7-day-old mouse pups. They found that exposure to 2% isoflurane for 1 hour resulted in apoptosis in cells in the...
by SmartTots | Oct 13, 2015 | News
San Francisco – October 13, 2015 – SmartTots today released an updated consensus statement that emphasizes a need for more research into the safety of anesthetics and sedatives administered to infants and young children under the age of 4. The statement was endorsed...
by SmartTots | Jun 30, 2015 | News
Researchers are trying to determine if chemicals used to knock out young children during surgery can have long-term repercussions on memory and development By Dina Fine Maron on June 30, 2015 The game is a contemporary of the original Nintendo but it still appeals to...
