Nearly 20 organizations including the Academy have endorsed an updated “consensus statement” from the organization SmartTots calling for more research into the safety of anesthetics and sedatives administered to children younger than 4 years.
Some evidence has shown that such exposures in very young animals are associated with impairment in learning ability, behavior and memory. Human research, however, has been mixed, according to SmartTots, a partnership of the International Anesthesia Research Society and the Food and Drug Administration.
SmartTots (Strategies for Mitigating Anesthesia-Related neurotoxicity in Tots) is a multiyear collaborative effort to increase the safety of anesthetic and sedative drugs for the millions of children who undergo surgery or other procedures each year.
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