General anesthesia, or general anesthesia, is a process in which anesthetics are injected by inhalation or intravenously to suppress the cerebral cortex, rendering the pediatrician temporarily unconscious and ensuring the completion of various surgeries without pain. This type of anesthesia allows the patient to lose consciousness and sensation completely during the procedure and to sleep quietly and painlessly. For young children, general anesthesia has almost become the first choice for pediatric surgical anesthesia because they cannot consciously cooperate with the surgery. However, many parents have doubts, “Will general anesthesia affect the child’s intellectual development?” The first thing you should know is that the anesthesia will not affect your child’s learning and development. Some parents even refuse anesthesia because of this. This is due to people’s lack of understanding of anesthesia. We know that stupidity and intelligence are related to the brain, as the basic material unit of thinking brain cells, their activities must have sufficient oxygen and sugar and other nutrients, of which oxygen is the main determining factor, if there is a respiratory, circulatory disorders will cause brain cells hypoxia, if the brain cells stop supplying oxygen for 5 to 8 minutes, it will seriously affect the metabolism of brain cells, affecting brain function, and even cause irreversible consequences. We are looking at general anesthesia. Pediatric general anesthesia according to the route of administration can be divided into two kinds of intravenous and inhalation, that is, through intravenous injection or pulmonary inhalation of anesthetics, through the blood circulation to reach the nerve center – the brain, by blocking the bioelectric transmission between the nerve synapses, to achieve the purpose of inhibiting the child’s consciousness, blocking the transmission of pain. However, this blockage is controlled and reversible. Controllable, during surgery, anesthesiologists through the precise regulation of anesthetics, that is, to meet the requirements of surgery, to ensure the smooth life of the child, the latest computerized target control technology has been the use of drugs accurate to milligram units; reversible, modern anesthetic drugs have gone through strict drug screening, animal and human testing, its effect on the nerve junction is a one-time, with the end of surgery, under the regulation of anesthesia pharmacists, the With the end of the surgery, under the control of the anesthesiologist, the anesthetics are excreted, of which 99.9% of the inhaled anesthetics are excreted in their original form through the lungs, and the intravenous anesthetics are also transformed into harmless substances in the body and excreted in the urine, while the nerve function is restored and no “effects” are left behind. On the contrary, if pediatric surgery is performed without anesthesia, it increases the risk of surgery and even causes “pediatric stupidity”, which is by no means alarming. Of course, anesthesia as a drug also has certain side effects, some children appear to be unresponsive during the postoperative recovery period because of the low metabolic rate and poor excretory function of children, coupled with the “secondary distribution” of anesthetic drugs stored in fat, muscle and other tissues in the blood after surgery, the child still has some residual anesthetic in the blood, which is manifested as Postoperative recovery is characterized by indifference and unresponsiveness. This phenomenon is the normal metabolic process of anesthetic drugs, parents do not need to worry about it. Individual children may experience varying degrees of insomnia and short-term memory impairment within a week after anesthesia, but this does not mean that the child’s intelligence is affected. Pediatric surgery requires a team effort to complete. Not only does it take a pediatric surgeon, but also nurses and anesthesiologists in the operating room and post-operative care unit. And anesthesiologists not only provide anesthesia, but also escort the surgery. During surgery, anesthesiologists understand patients’ basic vital indicators such as blood pressure, heartbeat, blood oxygen level, etc. through rich clinical experience and advanced monitoring instruments on the one hand, and comprehensively regulate patients’ physiological indicators through infusion, medication, and oxygen intake on the other hand to ensure the supply of oxygen during the whole operation period. Without these efforts of anesthesiologists, surgical safety would be impossible to talk about. Continuous postoperative monitoring is also aimed at preventing various unexpected situations and ensuring the oxygen supply to the brain. In turn, pediatric surgery is inseparable from general anesthesia. First of all, pediatric intelligence is not developed enough to understand the disease and cooperate with the surgery. Imagine how traumatic it is for a pediatric patient to leave the arms of his parents, enter a strange operating room, and endure severe pain. Some scholars have studied that there is a long period of postoperative behavioral developmental disorder in such a pediatric patient, and there is a significant endocrine disorder, and even when he grows up to be an adult, this unpleasant experience also exists in his subconscious to cause psychological disorders; secondly, without general anesthesia, it is impossible for the child to cooperate during surgery, which brings about non-stop movement, and then has a huge impact on the fineness of the surgery; finally good anesthesia can also provide the surgeon Provide a good surgical environment, otherwise, the surgeon has to soothe or even hold the sick child while performing surgery, and it is difficult to guarantee the successful completion of the surgery in the midst of the child’s cries. In summary, general anesthesia for pediatric surgery is very necessary, as long as the anesthesiologist master the characteristics of pediatric anesthesia, accurate use of drugs, careful observation, and correct treatment, we can certainly ensure the safety of surgery, and the postoperative period will not produce those adverse effects rumored in society.