Relevance of Preoperative Cognitive Impairment for Predicting Postoperative Delirium in Surgical Medicine: A Prospective Cohort Study
Henriette Louise Moellmann, Eman Alhammadi, Philipp Olbrich, Helmut Frohnhofen · 2024
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Henriette Louise Moellmann and three co-authors test whether thinking problems found before surgery can flag patients at risk of delirium afterward, in this 2024 study. Delirium is a feared complication for older surgical patients, and risk checks are often not standardized. The team ran a full preoperative assessment on four hundred twenty-one surgical patients.
Two quick screening tools were compared: a six-item screener and a clock-drawing test. Patients flagged by the six-item test faced a far higher delirium risk, and the clock test also separated risk, though more weakly. Needing a higher level of care, or having statutory care arranged, also marked higher risk. The six-item screener proved the more accurate of the two tools. The authors argue that a short cognition check belongs in every older patient's preoperative assessment, so support can be aimed where it is needed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Henriette Louise Moellmann, Eman Alhammadi, Philipp Olbrich, Helmut Frohnhofen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |