Open AccessCognitive Recovery by Decade in Healthy 40- to 80-Year-Old Volunteers After Anesthesia Without Surgery
Author(s) -
Mark G. Baxter,
Joshua S. Mincer,
Jess W. Brallier,
Arthur E. Schwartz,
Helen Ahn,
Tommer Nir,
Patrick J. McCormick,
Muhammad Ismail,
Margaret Sewell,
Heather Allore,
Christine M. Ramsey,
Mary Sano,
Stacie Deiner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000005824
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , postoperative cognitive dysfunction , sevoflurane , propofol , cognition , confidence interval , cohort , emergence delirium , surgery , psychiatry
Postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction are the most common complications for older surgical patients. General anesthesia may contribute to the development of these conditions, but there are little data on the association of age with cognitive recovery from anesthesia in the absence of surgery or underlying medical condition.