Pediatric anesthetic risk: Ketamine may damage children's learning ability and memory
Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
Recent studies have found that anesthesia drugs have neurotoxicity on the developing neurons, causing learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Ketamine is commonly used in pediatric anesthesia. A clinical retrospective study found that children under 3 years old who received a long-time surgery, or -- because of surgery -- require ketamine repeatedly, exhibited learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities when they reached school-age.