Post-operative behavioural disorders in paediatric anaesthesia caused by anaesthetics and sedatives

Abstract

Neurotoxicity of anaesthetics have become one of the most discussed problems in paediatric anaesthesiology. The experimental studies on animal models have shown that the anaesthetics used in general anaesthesia should have an infl uence on neurodegenerative processes, neuroapoptosis and irregulated death of the neuronal cells. Because of this fact, scientists are trying to discover the possibilities of how to minimize the adverse effects of anaesthesia and revise the other alternatives of prevention of anaesthesia-induced maladaptive behavioural disorders (Tab. 1, Fig. 1, Ref. 21). Text in PDF www.elis.sk