Mayo Clinic Study on Anesthesia and Learning Disabilities in Children

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children who require multiple surgeries under anesthesia during their first three years of life are at higher risk to develop learning disabilities later. Several studies have suggested that anesthetic drugs may cause abnormalities in the brains of young animals. This is the first study in humans to suggest that exposure of children to anesthesia may have similar consequences. The finding is reported in the current issue of the journal Anesthesiology.
Two of those researchers, Dr. Robert Wilder and Dr. Randall Flick ,comment on the study.

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• Mayo Clinic
• Anesthesia
• Learning Disabilities
• Flick
• Wilder

[zoebalhon]

there are many different reasons why children have learning difficulties