Postoperative confusion increases in elderly long-term benzodiazepine users

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1674-1678

  Kudoh, Akira ^a   Takase, Hajime ^a   Takahira, Yoko ^a   Takazawa, Tomoko ^a  

^a HIROSAKI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE; BROMAZEPAM; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLOTIAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; DICLOFENAC; ETHYL LOFLAZEPATE; PENTAZOCINE; TRIAZOLAM;

AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANXIETY; BENZODIAZEPINES; COGNITION; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 9244227111     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000136845.24802.19     Document Type: Article

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