1. What is your topic?: Obstetrical Anesthesiology
2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)
Exposure to Anesthesia at a young age may be linked to altered academic performance during childhood.
Block, Robert I., Ph.D., Joss J. Thomas, M.D., Emine O. Bayman, Ph.D., James Y. Choi, M.D., Karolie K. Kimble, RN, B.A., and Michael M. Todd, M.D. "Are Anesthesia and Surgery during Infancy Associated with Altered Academic Performance during Childhood?" Anesthesiology. American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc., Sept. 2012. Web. 06 Sept. 2012.
3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)
If a woman in labor gives birth under the use of general anesthesia then the risk of her child being born with learning disabilities or defects increases.
4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment. Include the tools you plan on using.
I plan to gather data from hospital records about women who have given birth with the aid of anesthesia and look what types of anesthetics were used. Afterwards I will look for any data that shows that their children may have learning defects and see if there is a correlation.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Pharmacology
