Despite advances in peri operative care, a significant percentage of elderly patients
experience transient post operative delirium and/or long-term post-operative cognitive …

Background Mental health and wellbeing continue to gain more attention as they are
inextricably associated with clinical outcomes, particularly quality of life. Many medical …

Background. Prior studies describe variable cerebral blood flow changes in delirium. This
study aims to investigate cerebral blood flow changes in older hospitalized patients with …

The purpose of the present paper was to determine the possible mechanism of delirium by
using xenon‐enhanced computed tomography to measure the regional cerebral blood flow …

Preoperative risk factors of postoperative delirium were evaluated in 260 patients admitted
for open heart surgery. The incidence of delirium was 11.5%. Independent predictors …

Purpose. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS), an approach in which full sternotomy is
avoided and the surgical incision is minimal, has been shown to produce less postoperative …

From the* Department for Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency
Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; and† …

Abstract Background and Aims: To identify pre-operative risk factors for delirium in patients
undergoing elective cardiac surgery, using clearly defined diagnostic criteria for delirium …

Delirium is a common, serious, yet poorly understood syndrome. Growing evidence
suggests cerebral metabolism is fundamentally disturbed; however, it has not been …

The authors studied interrelationships between plasma levels of amino acids, physical
condition (as apparent from cortisol, albumin, and thyroid hormone concentrations), and …