{"id":159637,"date":"2023-03-05T21:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-do-patients-feel-about-postoperative-cognitive-dysfunction"},"modified":"2023-03-05T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T03:36:15","slug":"how-do-patients-feel-about-postoperative-cognitive-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-do-patients-feel-about-postoperative-cognitive-dysfunction","title":{"rendered":"How do patients feel about postoperative cognitive dysfunction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-do-patients-feel-about-postoperative-cognitive-dysfunction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most concerning outcomes following surgery and anesthesia among older adults is a condition known as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Often, patients and their family members report feeling very fearful that the patient will suffer permanent cognitive deficits after anesthesia. Unfortunately, this pre-emptive fear may contribute to the complex array of symptoms associated with POCD and further complicate the ability to fully understand the subjective experience of this postoperative complication.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the study<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The current study published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0007091223000582\" rel=\"noopener\">British Journal of Anesthesia<\/a><\/em> involved the collection of data from the comments section of the published article titled \u2018<em>The hidden long-term risks of surgery.\u2019<\/em> The comments were given an alphanumeric code to maintain chronological order and structure, while the username, submission date, and time were kept anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most concerning outcomes following surgery and anesthesia among older adults is a condition known as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Often, patients and their family members report feeling very fearful that the patient will suffer permanent cognitive deficits after anesthesia. Unfortunately, this pre-emptive fear may contribute to the complex array of symptoms associated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}