Why the study?
Neurocognitive changes are the most common complication after cardiac surgery, distressing patients and families and associating with worse outcomes overall.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of perioperative neurocognitive disorders in adults undergoing cardiac surgery, highlighting screening, prevention, and management strategies.
May guide perioperative neurocognitive care in cardiac surgery; leaves open need for prospective validation of strategies.
Neurocognitive changes are the most common complication after cardiac surgery, ranging from acute postoperative delirium to prolonged postoperative neurocognitive disorder. Changes in cognition are distressing to patients and families and associated with worse outcomes overall. This review outlines definitions and diagnostic criteria, risk factors for, and mechanisms of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders and offers strategies for preoperative screening and perioperative prevention and management of neurocognitive complications.
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