Key result
Review outlines causes, diagnosis, and management of common neurologic syndromes following cardiac surgery.
Why the study?
Neurologic evaluation in the immediate postoperative period after cardiac surgery is challenging due to residual anesthetic and medication effects complicating assessment.
This review outlines the causes, clinical manifestations, diagnostic options, and interventions for common neurologic syndromes following cardiac surgery.
Supports clinician awareness of post-cardiac surgery neurologic syndromes; leaves open the need for prospective trials on interventions.
The neurologic evaluation of patients in the immediate postoperative period and postanesthetic state is unique and challenging. Neurologic assessment is complicated by the lingering residual effects of anesthetics as well as by the effects of narcotic analgesics, anxiolytics, and muscle relaxants, especially in ventilated patients. In this review we examine the suspected causes, clinical manifestations, diagnostic options, and intervention schemes for the common neurologic syndromes seen after cardiac operations.
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Floyd et al. (2000) conducted a review in Neurologic syndromes after cardiac operations. Neurologic assessment and management was evaluated. This review outlines the suspected causes, clinical manifestations, diagnostic options, and intervention schemes for common neurologic syndromes following cardiac surgery.
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