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>>12337365
Good news everyone, even people without inner monologues read this in my voice.

>>11532768

There’s more and more data that exposure of the developing mind (babies, kids <5yo) to anesthesia has detrimental neurocognitive effects. Some kids require a ton of surgery for various conditions so it’s hard to tease out if they were predisposed to being low IQ anyway due to their condition or if the anesthesia and surgery had some effect. However there’s reasonable data to suggest that many otherwise healthy kids can develop behavioral problems after exposure to general anesthesia (ADHD has best evidence, albeit weak).

In adults it’s well known that going on the cardiopulmonary bypass machine for cardiac surgery definitely causes extremely subtle cognitive deficits which can be permanent.

But otherwise healthy 20 year old for an ex lap? Likely there’s no residual effect from anesthesia and surgery and you have something else going on

>t. anesthesiologist