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==Conclusion==
Flechsig's error condemned millions of infant girls and boys to acute [[pain]], [[trauma]] and [[shock]] for more than a century and still persists today. Open heart surgery on infants was done without anesthesiauntil 1987.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.newsweek.com/when-doctors-start-using-anesthesia-babies-medics-thought-they-couldnt-feel-pain-1625350
|title=When Did Doctors Start Using Anesthesia on Babies? Medics Thought They Couldn't Feel Pain
|date=2021-09-02
|accessdate=2023-01-07
}}</ref> The AAP belatedly acknowledged the need for anesthesia in 1987.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Committee on Fetus and Newborn
|first=
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|author-link=
|last2=Committee on Drugs
|first2=
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|author2-link=
|last3=Section on Anesthesiology
|first3=
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|author3-link=
|last4=Section on Surgery
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|etal=no
|title=Neonatal anesthesia
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|language=
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=1987
|volume=80
|issue=3
|article=
|page=446
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/pain/aap/
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|accessdate=2024-01-07
}}</ref> Boys may have suffered more than girls because of the practice of non-therapeutic neonatal [[circumcision]], including the after effects of behavior changes<ref>{{TaddioA KatzJ IlersichAL KorenG 1997}}</ref> and [[PTSD]].
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