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Single, short duration exposure of general anesthesia appears to cause no cognitive harm in healthy, young children

by SmartTots | Jun 27, 2016 | Research Articles

A recent study concluded that very young, healthy children undergoing short surgical procedures requiring a single exposure to general anesthesia did not exhibit any effect on the cognitive outcomes tested, according to SmartTots, a public-private partnership of the International Anesthesia Research Society and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, the group cautioned that more research is needed to identify problems that might exist under different circumstances.

The multi-center PANDA (Pediatric Anesthesia Neurodevelopment Assessment) study was led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and New-York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. SmartTots was a partial funder of the study, which was published in the June 7, 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study, which compared 105 otherwise healthy children who were given general anesthesia for inguinal hernia surgery before the age of 3 with siblings who had not received anesthesia before age 3, showed no significant difference in IQ scores between the siblings when assessed between the ages of 8 and 15. The period of 0-3 years old is a critical time in the development of a child’s brain; animal studies and some previous epidemiological studies have shown general anesthesia to have a harmful effect when given during periods of rapid brain development. While this study included healthy children with a single exposure to general anesthesia, a different patient population, including children with a more complicated medical history and with multiple general anesthesia exposures, may show different results.

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