Behavioural disorders after prenatal exposure to anaesthesia for maternal surgery: is it the anaesthesia or the surgery? Comment on Br J Anaesth 2024; 132: 899-910

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address: Holly.ende@vumc.org.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Women's Anesthesia, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Holly B Ende et al. Br J Anaesth. 2024 Sep.

. 2024 Sep;133(3):682-683.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.05.023. Epub 2024 Jun 27.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address: Holly.ende@vumc.org.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Women's Anesthesia, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.

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Keywords: anaesthetic neurotoxicity; behavioural deficit; maternal surgery; neurodevelopment; paediatric anaesthesia; prenatal exposure.

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