Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Open Access
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Abstract
Post-operative cognitive dysfunction: pre-operative risk assessment and peri-operative risk minimization: A pragmatic review of the literature
M.P. Vizcaychipi
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.
