Postoperative Delirium in Cardiac Surgery: An Unavoidable Menace?

Affiliations

¹ Department for Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: alexa.hollinger@usb.ch.
² Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
³ Department for Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Review

Alexa Hollinger et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;29(6):1677-87.

doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2014.08.021. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

¹ Department for Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: alexa.hollinger@usb.ch.
² Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
³ Department for Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac surgery; postoperative cognitive decline; postoperative delirium.

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