Anaesthesia for hernia surgery in children and risk of later developmental problems

Saturday, November 8, 2008 - 13:35 in Health & Medicine

Children under the age of three who had hernia surgery showed almost twice the risk of behavioural or developmental problems later compared to children who had not undergone the surgery, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons...

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