Key result
Post-operative cognitive dysfunction is a recognized neuropsychological consequence of anesthesia, but studying it is difficult because it lacks formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria.
This review discusses the pre-operative risk assessment and peri-operative risk minimization for post-operative cognitive dysfunction.
May complicate perioperative cognitive assessment; leaves open the need for formal diagnostic criteria to advance research.
Post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is one of the most well recognised neuropsychological consequences of anaesthesia. One of the difficulties in studying POCD however is that although it is recognised as a mild cognitive disorder separate to delirium and dementia, and characterised by subtle impairments in memory, concentration and information processing, it is not yet described formally as a psychiatric diagnosis with exact diagnostic criteria.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Marcela P. Vizcaychipi (2016) conducted a review in Post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Post-operative cognitive dysfunction is a recognized neuropsychological consequence of anesthesia, but studying it is difficult because it lacks formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria.
Synapse has enriched 3 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: