Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive change affecting patients after anaesthesia and surgery has been recognised for more than 100 yr. Research into cognitive change after anaesthesia and surgery accelerated in the 1980s when multiple studies utilised detailed neuropsychological testing for assessment of cognitive change after cardiac surgery. This body of work consistently documented decline in cognitive function in elderly patients after anaesthesia and surgery, and cognitive changes have been identified up to 7.5 yr afterwards. Importantly, other studies have identified that the incidence of cognitive change is similar after non-cardiac surgery. Other than the inclusion of non-surgical control groups to calculate postoperative cognitive dysfunction, research into these cognitive changes in the perioperative perio

SUBMITTER: Evered L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069032 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature