Comprehensive geriatric assessment for predicting postoperative delirium in oral and maxillofacial surgery: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Identifying high-risk patients for developing postoperative delirium (POD) is essential for optimizing the medical field's human and financial resources through specialty-relevant geriatric assessments that can aid in establishing prehabilitation strategies. This study aims to identify geriatric screening tools to predict preoperative delirium and explore the high-risk elderly patients undergoing oral maxillofacial surgery. A comprehensive geriatric assessment encompassing 23 instruments was used to evaluate inpatients undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia, preoperatively and postoperatively. Selective intraoperative and postoperative variables were also assessed for their relation to POD occurrence. This prospective study included 90 patients (mean age 79.0 years) from August 2022

SUBMITTER: Alhammadi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554771 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature