Brendan S. Silbert

TL;DR: Most adverse morbid outcomes in high-risk patients undergoing major abdominal surgery are not reduced by use of combined epidural and general anaesthesia and postoperative epidural analgesia, however, the improvement in analgesIA, reduction in respiratory failure, and the low risk of serious adverse consequences suggest that many high- risk patients undergo major intra-abdominal surgery will receive substantial benefit from combined general and epidural anaesthesia intraoperatively with continuing postoperative analgesia.

TL;DR: The working group recommends that ‘perioperative neurocognitive disorders’ be used as an overarching term for cognitive impairment identified in the preoperative or postoperative period as well as two major classification guidelines used outside of anaesthesia and surgery.

TL;DR: The working group recommends that ‘perioperative neurocognitive disorders’ be used as an overarching term for cognitive impairment identified in the preoperative or postoperative period as well as two major classification guidelines used outside of anaesthesia and surgery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the use of nitrous oxide-free and N2O-based anesthesia in patients undergoing major surgery and found that the latter significantly decreased the incidence of complications after major surgery, while the latter increased the inspired oxygen concentration.

TL;DR: The incidence of Postoperative cognitive dysfunction in old and elderly patients at day 7 was higher after CABG surgery than THJR surgery, but POCD at 3 months was independent of the nature or the type of procedure or anesthetic when comparing CA, THJR, and C ABG surgery groups.