Anesthetic agents used in infants and children could adversely affect their neurologic, cognitive, and social development under certain circumstances, according to animal studies.
Do anesthetic agents adversely affect neurologic, cognitive, and social development in infants and children?
Animal data suggest potential adverse neurodevelopmental effects of anesthetic agents in children, prompting a need to define safe usage.
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Anesthetic agents are commonly used for a variety of medical procedures in infants and children, but data from studies in animals suggest that under certain circumstances, these drugs could adversely affect children's neurologic, cognitive, and social development.
Rappaport et al. (Wed,) reported a other. Anesthetic agents used in infants and children could adversely affect their neurologic, cognitive, and social development under certain circumstances, according to animal studies.