As if watching your kid get wheeled away for surgery isn’t bad enough, today comes news that anesthesia can cause developmental problems in children.
A
preliminary study by Lena S. Sun, professor of anesthesiology and
pediatrics at the Columbia University found that children who were
exposed to anesthesia were about twice as likely to be diagnosed with a
later behavioral or developmental disorder.
Sun looked at a
database of Medicaid patients in New York. The Columbia team studied a
group of children born between 1999 and 2000 who had received general
anesthesia for hernia repair and a group of 5,000 children who never
had the surgery.
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