Association Between a Single General Anesthesia Exposure Before Age 36 Months and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Later Childhood
Author(s) -
Lena S. Sun,
Guohua Li,
Tonya Miller,
Cynthia F. Salorio,
Mary Byrne,
David C. Bellinger,
Caleb Ing,
Raymond Park,
Jerilynn Radcliffe,
Stephen R. Hays,
Charles DiMaggio,
Timothy Cooper,
Virginia Rauh,
Lynne G. Maxwell,
Ahrim Youn,
Francis X. McGowan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2016.6967
Subject(s) - neurocognitive , medicine , pediatrics , sibling , anesthesia , cohort , neuropsychology , anesthetic , cognition , cohort study , psychiatry , psychology , developmental psychology
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 understand.
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