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  2. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction - Wikipedia

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    After surgery, optimal pain management and infection control is important. Several studies have shown variable-significance positive effects when a multidisciplinary, multifactorial approach to elderly patient is followed during pre, peri and post-operative care. [5] [7]

  3. Delirium - Wikipedia

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    Delirium occurs in 11–51% of older adults after surgery, in 81% of those in the ICU, and in 20–22% of individuals in nursing homes or post-acute care settings. [3] Among those requiring critical care, delirium is a risk factor for death within the next year. [3] [13]

  4. Emergence delirium - Wikipedia

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    Emergence delirium has been associated long-term changes neurocognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery. [ 8 ] A cohort study which included 560 adults aged 70 years and older for a period of 6 years revealed that delirium represents the most common post-operative complication and is associated with long-term cognitive decline and increased ...

  5. Postperfusion syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The authors concluded patients with long-standing coronary artery disease have some degree of cognitive dysfunction secondary to cerebrovascular disease before surgery; there is no evidence the cognitive test performance of bypass surgery patients differed from similar control groups with coronary artery disease over a 12-month follow-up period.

  6. Sundowning - Wikipedia

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    Sundowning, or sundown syndrome, [1] is a neurological phenomenon wherein people with delirium or some form of dementia experience increased confusion and restlessness beginning in the late afternoon and early evening.

  7. Steroid dementia syndrome - Wikipedia

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    When the steroid treatment ended after a year, the patent's confusion and disorganized appearance stopped immediately. Within several weeks, testing showed strong improvement in almost all cognitive functions. His doctors were surprised at the improvement, since the results were inconsistent with a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer's.

  8. Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment - Wikipedia

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    Subjects were tested at two periods: one year after surgery, and again at three years post-surgery. Results from the first year study found smaller volumes of gray and white matter in patients exposed to chemotherapy. However, in the three-year study, both groups of breast cancer survivors were observed to have similar gray and white matter ...

  9. Anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (also known as POCD and post-anesthetic confusion) is a disturbance in cognition after surgery. It may also be variably used to describe emergence delirium (immediate post-operative confusion) and early cognitive dysfunction (diminished cognitive function in the first post-operative week). Although the three ...