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Anaesthesia and cognitive functioning
Author(s) -
COHEN R. L.,
MacKENZIE A. I.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1982.tb00993.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , minor surgery , cognition , general anaesthesia , hospital discharge , general anaesthetic , regional anaesthesia , surgery , general surgery , psychiatry
Summary Day care patients at Law Hospital, who had received either a general or a local anaesthetic in conjunction with minor surgery, were assessed by five tests of mental junction before surgery and before discharge from hospital some hours after surgery. These patients did not perform differently from control patients, who were subjected to the same two testing sessions, without intervening surgery or anaesthesia. It was concluded that the day cases were quite capable of normal cognitive functioning at the time of their discharge and that the procedures followed by the hospital for the discharge of day cases are generally adequate.