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Anesthetics and sedatives: toxic or protective for the developing brain?
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Anesthetic: Gases show some inconclusive evidence of mildly impaired intellectual capacity in children who had anesthesia as infants, but the illness requiring surgery may itself be the cause. So the answer is maybe, but no one knows for sure how much.
Answered 10/23/2013
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