The impact of the perioperative period on neurocognitive development, with a focus on pharmacological concerns

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-449

  Istaphanous, George K ^a,b   Ward, Christopher G ^a,b   Loepke, Andreas W ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Anaesthetics; Animal; Brain; Critical care; Cytotoxicity; Disability; Foetus; GABA; Infant; Intensive care; Learning impairment; Neonate; Neuroapoptosis; Neurodegeneration; Neurologic; Neurotoxicity; Newborn; NMDA; Pain; Sedation; Sedatives; Surgery

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DRUG SAFETY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; LEARNING DISORDER; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; ANIMAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; PAIN; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955208877     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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