Key result
Surgical type and anesthetic choice are not associated with the development of postoperative cognitive dysfunction.
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Should not yet change anesthetic or surgical choices to prevent POCD; leaves open confirmation in prospective trials.
*Department of Anaesthesia, Centre for Anaesthesia and Cognitive Function, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne; and †Department of Pathology and Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
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Evered et al. (2012) studied this question. Surgical type and anesthetic choice are not associated with the development of postoperative cognitive dysfunction.
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