Exposure to Surgery and Anesthesia in Early Childhood and Subsequent Use of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Medications.

CONCLUSIONS: Medicaid-enrolled children receiving anesthesia for a single common pediatric surgical procedure under age 5 years were 37% more likely to require subsequent persistent use of ADHD medications than unexposed children. Because the increased use of ADHD medication is disproportionately higher than that of nonpsychotropic medications, unmeasured confounding may not account for all of the increase in ADHD medication use. By evaluating Medicaid data, this study assesses children who may be particularly vulnerable to neurotoxic exposures.
PMID: 31923004 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - January 7, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Ing C, Ma X, Sun M, Lu Y, Wall MM, Olfson M, Li G Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research