wilder and his associates are skeptical about their figures primarily because the data do not make clear whether it was the anesthesia that responded to the children ' s learning deficits , or whether it was an underlying condition that may have required surgery and precipitated the learning difficulty . of the more than 5 , 000 participants studies , 593 requested at present five surgery and just over 100 infants needed more than two before age 3 . there may be something unexpected about this population of offspring that could have made them vulnerable to learning problems and necessitated they undergo surgery and anaesthetic .
Anesthesia causes learning disabilities.