Part time employment at various hospitals

Study title:
Long term outcome after general anaesthesia in newborns and infants: a Danish follow up study
Hypothesis and outcomes:
The current study aims to investigate, whether GA provided to children up to 1 year of age
causes any long term damage to brain development. We will compare 1) school achievements,
2) presence of psychiatric diagnoses, 3) handicaps of vision and hearing among children, who
on one side have been through surgery and GA within their first year of life and on the other
side to children, who have not.
If GA causes brain damage, we expect these children
– to have poorer grades at school at the national 9th grade exam
– to be more often diagnosed with psychiatric diseases
– to present with visual- and hearing-handicaps more often, than the children, they are
compared to.
Method:
The relations mentioned above will be investigated merely by search on different Danish Civil
Registers and linkage of these data. All children born in DK from 1986-1990 will be identified
in the C R-register and linked to 5 different registers.
We will adjust our data for those factors, that might influence school achievements,
behavioural diagnoses and handicaps: parents’ age and education, the childrens birthweight,
the condition the children needed treatment for in the first place.
Advantages:
The current study is much cheaper than clinical experiments.
No harm is done to children, no inconvenience is imposed on parents or professionals.
The data are already there, hence the results will be available within a reasonable time-frame.

Instructor Prospect as part of the Danish European Trauma Course (ETC)- team

Special field of interest: Paediatric anaesthesia, Orthopaedic anaesthesia, TraumaAssessment & –
team training

Doctor of Medicine (MD)