Developing brain and general anesthesia -- is there a cause for concern?
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Developing brain and general anesthesia – is there a cause for concern?
Skilled management of sick premature babies and very young children has resulted in numerous exposures of their brains to a variety of anesthetic agents designed to achieve the substantial depth of neuronal inhibition required for complete loss of consciousness and insensitivity to pain. Unfortunately, our recent animal findings suggest that commonly used general anesthetics are damaging to dev...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000 Medicine Reports
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1757-5931
DOI: 10.3410/m2-68