Neonatal and Early Childhood Outcomes Following Maternal Anesthesia for Cesarean Section: A Population-based Cohort Study

Abstract

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Non‐obstetric surgery and later childhood development: optimal anaesthesia for the mother–infant dyad

“…A cohort of 5320 children born between 1976 and 1982 showed no difference in learning disabilities between babies born by caesarean under regional compared with general anaesthesia compared with vaginal delivery [10]. More recently, a Scottish population‐based observational study of 140,866 children born between 2007 and 2016 found a weak association between general anaesthesia during delivery for caesarean birth and having ≥ 1 abnormality in childhood developmental assessment at age 2 y [11]. These studies clearly represent a different population receiving exposure to anaesthesia for only a short time during delivery and highlight the dearth of literature in this area [7].…”