Leah Acker, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Outside of the delirium field, less complex physiological output signals often are associated with increased risk of geriatric syndromes. For example, an increased risk of falls is associated with less complex musculoskeletal adjustment movements.1 Overall, less complex physiological signals are associated […]
Matthew S. Duprey, PharmD, PhD, BCCCP Investigator, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health Practitioners familiar with delirium and its consequences have long sought a medication-based treatment to reduce its severity and duration in hospital and also improve post-hospitalization outcomes including long-term cognitive impairment. Despite three randomized controlled trials […]
Contributed by Elizabeth Mahanna-Gabrielli, MD Department of Anesthesiology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida As a neuroanesthesiologist and intensivist, I’ve seen many frail patients come into the operating room and intensive care unit. During the early years of my career, frailty was informally defined as patient who was elderly, weak, and deconditioned; clinicians […]
Contributed by Brian O’Gara MD MPH Department of Anesthesiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA Postoperative delirium occurs in 15-50% of older surgical patients, and increases the risk of postoperative complications, hospital mortality and long-term cognitive dysfunction.1 Hospital -based multicomponent interventions can prevent postoperative delirium, but these approaches are only 30-40% effective.2 Therefore, there is […]