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The theory wasn't about remembering, it was mostly about babies supposedly having a nervous system too immature to interpret pain as in adults. This is not the
by rscho 1y ago
The theory wasn't about remembering, it was mostly about babies supposedly having a nervous system too immature to interpret pain as in adults. This is not the current opinion at all anymore.
- holowoodman 1y agoYou are correct. But there is also the aspect that in current opinion, children below the age of 2 to 3 years do not form episodic memory. Which can reinforce the misconception about the necessity of anesthetics in children, because they are unable to recall and tell about the pain.
- rscho 1y agoAnesthesia is mostly know-how. When you've put several hundred kids under, you (usually) become equipped with a good sense of what's going on, even without kids telling you.