Anesthesia Related Neurocognitive Deficits in Children (ANFOLKI-36)

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03034889

ANFOLKI-36

Details and patient eligibility

About

The infantile brain has to pass essential, mayor steps in the first 36 months of life. During that period of development it is particularly vulnerable to toxic, exogenic influences. This study wants to review the long-term effects of children who were exposed to anesthesia in the first three years of their life. Therefore the investigators will examine children at age of 4-10 that were exposed to anesthesia and compare their neurocognitive capacity to children who did not have any exposure to anesthesia. The investigators plan on measuring the intelligence quotient using standardized tests which will be performed by a trained psychologist. In addition there will be a questionnaire concerning behavioral characteristics and educational development which is filled by the parents. The exposed children will be recruited from our preexisting database, the control group will be recruited from practitioners and the pediatric walk-in-clinic.

Enrollment: 700 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• General anesthesia before the age of 36 months

Exclusion criteria

• neurosurgical interventions
• cardiac surgery
• preexisting hereditary or acquired cognitive deficits
• no informed consent

Trial design

700 participants in 2 patient groups

Exposed

Description:

Children age 4-10 who required general anesthesia before the age of 36 months in the context of surgical and diagnostic procedures or sedation during intensive care, excluding neurosurgical interventions or cardiac surgery as well as preexisting hereditary or acquired neurocognitive deficits

Control

Description:

Children age 4-10 who did not require any anesthesia before the age of 36 months. Excluding preexisting hereditary or acquired neurocognitive deficits.