Does early exposure to multiple anesthetics increase the risk of later development of learning disabilities in children?
Early exposure to multiple, but not single, anesthetics is associated with an increased risk of later learning disabilities, though causality remains unclear.
Exposure to anesthesia was a significant risk factor for the later development of LD in children receiving multiple, but not single anesthetics. These data cannot reveal whether anesthesia itself may contribute to LD or whether the need for anesthesia is a marker for other unidentified factors that contribute to LD.
Wilder et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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