Exposure to anesthesia during an appendectomy in children does not uniquely increase the risk for subsequent neurobehavioral diagnoses compared with medical admissions without anesthesia. Researchers ...

The question of anesthesia's impact on brain development has nagged the field for decades, with negative preclinical and animal model data but little conclusive evidence in humans. Young children ...

Repeated exposure to general anesthesia did not negatively affect neurobehavioral outcomes among children with cystic fibrosis, the randomized phase IV CF-GAIN trial showed. The mean composite score ...