Open AccessPredictors of Cognitive Recovery After Cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Monique Fontes,
R. Cameron Swift,
Barbara Phillips-Bute,
Mihai V. Podgoreanu,
Mark StaffordSmith,
Mark F. Newman,
Joseph P. Mathew
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e318273f37e
Subject(s) - medicine , cognition , cardiac surgery , medline , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
Postoperative neurocognitive decline occurs frequently. Although predictors of cognitive injury have been well examined, factors that modulate recovery have not. We sought to determine the predictors of cognitive recovery after initial injury following cardiac surgery.