MedPageToday -- A possible link between exposure to anesthesia and brain development in young children is the subject of both an FDA panel meeting on Thursday and an article written in a major medical journal by agency officials. “We need to definitively answer the questions of whether anesthetic use in children poses a risk to their development and, if so, under what circumstances,” Bob Rappaport, MD, who heads the FDA’s anesthesia and analgesia products, and colleagues wrote in a Perspective article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
