Anaesthesia may impact child's learning

By Sarah Wiedersehn
Updated April 27 2018 - 1:42pm, first published 1:39pm

Young children who have been exposed to general anaesthesia don't perform as well in literacy and numeracy tests at primary school, an Australian study has found.

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