Lena S. Sun, MD
A single anesthesia exposure of inhaled anesthetic agents in healthy children before 36 months of age is not associated with impaired neurocognitive development and abnormal behavior in later childhood, a sibling-matched cohort study has found (JAMA 2016;315:2312-2320).
The impetus for the study was an earlier paper by Mellon et al (Anesth Analg 2007;104:509-520), “which summarized the neurotoxicity effects of anesthetic agents in juvenile animal studies,” explained