With the recent rapid increase in life expectancy and the advancement of anesthesia technology, the demand for general ...

Postoperative delirium is a change in mental function that can cause confusion and occurs in up to 15% of surgical patients. In certain high-risk patients, such as those with hip fractures, the ...

Postoperative delirium is a common and serious complication affecting older surgical patients, often leading to prolonged hospital stays, increased need for long-term care, and a higher likelihood ...

Forty patients (24%) developed postoperative delirium, and these patients had displayed a greater mean macular thickness (283.35 µm) of the right eye at their preoperative assessment than the ...

When the macular layer of an older adult’s right eye retina becomes thicker, the person is more likely to experience postoperative delirium, a study shows. That was the case for older patients ...

Forty patients (24%) developed postoperative delirium, and these patients displayed a greater mean macular thickness (283.35 µm) of the right eye at their preoperative assessment than the ...

In older patients undergoing surgery, preoperative macular thickness may be a marker for vulnerability to developing postoperative delirium.

The goal of this review is to provide relevant information that can be used to manage acute postoperative pain in the older adult. This article will attempt to describe the assessment of pain in ...

may serve as a non-invasive marker and identify individuals vulnerable to developing postoperative delirium after anesthesia and surgery among geriatric patients," concluded a team led by senior ...

In this randomized clinical trial, the use of near-infrared spectroscopy and hemodynamic monitoring did not provide ...

Thickening of the macular layer of the eye’s retina is associated with a greater risk of postoperative delirium for older patients undergoing surgery under general anaesthetic, reveals a study ...