wilder and his colleagues are cautiously about their results also because the data do not leave clear if it was the sedation that added to the people ' s mental deficits , or whether it was an underlying condition that may have required care and triggered the learning problems . of the more than 5 , 000 babies involved , 593 needed at least one implant and just over 100 babies needed more than two before age 3 . there may be something unusual about this population of children that suggested have helped them vulnerable to learned problem and required they undergo surgery and sedation .
Anesthesia causes learning disabilities.