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Anesthesia and Cognitive Impairment

Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders (PND) are a major life-challenging complication in the perioperative period, with incidences ranging from 15% to 50%. Older age is a risk factor for PND and that its incidence will probably further increase. Nevertheless, the raised recognition of PND role is challenging the current clinical practice, with an increased attention to preoperative conditions of frailty and to intraoperative anesthesia monitoring, using for example processed EEG signal, to avoid both conditions of intraoperative over (toxicity) or under (awareness) treatment. In order to recognize the anesthesiologists’ efforts to improve management of PND in recent years, we have decided to launch a BMC Anesthesiology collection colled “Anesthesia and cognitive impairment”.

Articles (16 in this collection)