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CompletedNCT03034889

Anesthesia Related Neurocognitive Deficits in Children

Neurocognitive Development in Children Who Received General Anesthesia Before the Age of 3 Years: A Historic-prospective, Controlled, Single Center Cross-section Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
700 (actual)
Sponsor
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
4 Years – 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2017-01-01
Primary completion
2019-12-01
Completion
2020-03-01
First posted
2017-01-27
Last updated
2020-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03034889. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.