General Anesthesia Linked to Language Problems in Children

[wtbcrna]

"San Diego--Surgery with general anesthesia in young children may well lead to diminished language abilities and cognition, not to mention long-term regional volumetric alterations in brain structure, recent research suggests. Whether these findings are due to the anesthesia or some other mitigating factor, however, remains to be determined in a prospective trial."

http://www.anesthesiologynews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ses=ogst&d=PRN&d_id=21&i=ISSUE%3a+December+2013&i_id=1020&a_id=24535

[wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA]

I am not trying to be either, I am making a judgment based on how you "talk" to me and others.

No you do not have to agree with me, but your livid and harsh responses will never produce a thoughtful discussion. Sarcasm, belittling, and name calling will automatically cause defensiveness. My inter professional assessment was made based on how you respond to those that even slightly question your posts. If you speak to people at work who disagree with you the way you do to people on this site who have a different opinion, then it is difficult for me to understand how you work collaboratively.

You say you are in the military. I guess my lived experience with military personnel is different. I grew up in a military family, and I always admired the discipline my dad, grandfathers, and nephews had for civilians even when they disagreed with them. Even if someone made a derogatory comment about the military, they always showed restraint in their words and actions. I like to think I learned a lot from them and applied it to the workforce and in interactions with others. I am not a CRNA, but I am a nurse with advanced nursing degrees who teaches APN's who go into anesthesia. Just as you deserve to treated with respect for your service and training, I deserve the same as well.

All I can tell you is that you are way over the top! You base every statement with well I work with, I teach X (which what exactly do you teach anyways) or my family was. That is great that your family was in the military, but that gives you very little insight into being in the military. You are not an APRN you have not been in the military, and your highest listed degree is an MSN. Over half the nurses I work with have at least one Masters degree, and in a few years I expect a significant portion of military nurses will have clinical doctorates. It still does not give all of them the insight you presume to have in anesthesia. Your comments on what constitutes a healthy child are laughable. Child X got a cold/strep throat so they are not healthy or the child has cavities so they are not healthy, or the child has chronic otitis media so they are not healthy. You do not have the background, as myself and others have been telling you, and yet when called out on it you continue on and on. Rant away I can continue writing these statements over and over.

And just to be fair I went back and looked at my first comment to you based on your first post on here. It was not condescending in anyway, but it did point out your lack of understanding on the subject which seems to be a reoccurring theme.

[msn10]

All I can tell you is that you are way over the top!

I am over the top? You didn't hear a word I said

Child X got a cold/strep throat so they are not healthy or the child has cavities so they are not healthy, or the child has chronic otitis media so they are not healthy.

Not what I said. I said repeatedly > 7 year. But minute point.

I went back and looked at my first comment to you based on your first post on here

I wasn't talking about one comment, look at all of them.

That is great that your family was in the military, but that gives you very little insight into being in the military.

I didn't say I was in the military. Again, you completely take things out of context. I said how I respected how the military people in my family treated people.

You cannot admit your ever wrong in how you speak to people. It is not worth talking to because you always have to be right and mean.

Rant away I can continue writing these statements over and over.

Exactly, because you like to be condescending, it seems to give you power.

You are not an APRN and your highest listed degree is an MSN.

Wrong. Don't know where degrees are listed, but if they are, I will have to update it. You don't know me at all.

I'm done.

[wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA]

I'm done.

Thank goodness and I heard and understood everything you posted.

The point is still the same you consider yourself knowledgeable based on casual associations on a subject when the truth is anything but that.

[jwk]

I am not trying to be either, I am making a judgment based on how you "talk" to me and others.

No you do not have to agree with me, but your livid and harsh responses will never produce a thoughtful discussion. Sarcasm, belittling, and name calling will automatically cause defensiveness. My inter professional assessment was made based on how you respond to those that even slightly question your posts. If you speak to people at work who disagree with you the way you do to people on this site who have a different opinion, then it is difficult for me to understand how you work collaboratively.

You say you are in the military. I guess my lived experience with military personnel is different. I grew up in a military family, and I always admired the discipline my dad, grandfathers, and nephews had for civilians even when they disagreed with them. Even if someone made a derogatory comment about the military, they always showed restraint in their words and actions. I like to think I learned a lot from them and applied it to the workforce and in interactions with others. I am not a CRNA, but I am a nurse with advanced nursing degrees who teaches APN's who go into anesthesia. Just as you deserve to treated with respect for your service and training, I deserve the same as well.

You're very astute :) You should give lessons.