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Allison Lee, MD, recipient of a 2017 FAER Research and Education Grant

A new study found the rate of anesthesia-related complications in women who received epidural or spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery decreased 25 percent over the past decade.

Headed by Emily Vail, MD, Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University in New York, the study reviewed outcomes related to the 2011 national shortage of norepinephrine.

For healthy children under 36 months, a single exposure to inhaled anesthesia is not associated with impaired neurocognitive development and abnormal behavior in later childhood.