exposing young children to an anaesthetic brief, single does not appear to have adverse effects in the long term on the brain, a finding which should reassure parents, researchers say.
Previous studies in young animals have found evidence that anesthetics can cause problems of development and behavioural, but if the same as in young children has been uncertain.
In this new study, researchers compared the school results of the two groups of students in the ninth year at the Denmark: 2,689 had inguinal hernia repair before age and 14,575 in the general population of 1 year.
No there was no statistically significant difference in academic performance between the two groups and the majority of students who had a hernia repair in childhood showed no signs of neurological impairment, the researchers found.
The study is published in the may issue of the journal Anesthesiology.
"Fortunately, our study does not find a relationship between Neurodegeneration and anesthesia in young children." The findings should help reassure parents that if their child needs surgery, a minimum quantity of anaesthesia does not appear to affect the achievements of education later in life "study author Dr. Tom g. Hansen"said in a press release of the newspaper.
"However, we cannot fully conclude that anaesthetics are safe in all cases." "More human data must be collected to exclude the effects in more specific areas of the outcome of neuro", he added.
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