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...severe version of this syndrome is rare - only 100 to 200 for every 100,000 women - but its consequences can include kidney failure and death. And then there are other side effects, such as bleeding, infection and death, which are associated with any surgery performed under general anesthesia. But fully 20% of the 80 donors interviewed said they didn't know there were any physical risks to egg donation...
...What's more, the Mayo researchers found hints of a dose-dependent effect: the longer infants stayed under anesthesia, the greater their chance of developing later problems reading, writing and doing math...
...Still, experts are not willing to say that babies should never be given anesthesia. "We don't want to delay surgery or withhold surgery for the kids who need it," says Dr. Sulpicio Soriano, an anesthesiologist at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital in Boston. "But we need more research and clinical investigation to find new drugs and new combinations of drugs that can attenuate or mitigate the cognitive effects...
...Already, the Food and Drug Administration is supporting further study of the connection between anesthesia and cognition to find such alternatives. Meanwhile, says Flick, "it's just not time yet to make any recommendations about changing practices...
...Read a TIME story on anesthesia...