Postoperative cognitive dysfunction and noncardiac surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 496-505

  Evered, Lisbeth A ^a,b   Silbert, Brendan S ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIA; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DISORDERS OF HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GERIATRICS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DELIRIUM; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 85056494058     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003514     Document Type: Review

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