{"id":217411,"date":"2025-07-08T22:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/treating-postoperative-delirium-as-preventable-acute-brain-failure-low-cost-interventions-could-have-major-impact"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:06:20","slug":"treating-postoperative-delirium-as-preventable-acute-brain-failure-low-cost-interventions-could-have-major-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/treating-postoperative-delirium-as-preventable-acute-brain-failure-low-cost-interventions-could-have-major-impact","title":{"rendered":"Treating postoperative delirium as preventable \u2018acute brain failure\u2019: Low-cost interventions could have major impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/treating-postoperative-delirium-as-preventable-acute-brain-failure-low-cost-interventions-could-have-major-impact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new large-scale study spotlights postoperative delirium as a preventable and high-impact complication which is driven by patient frailty and surgical stress\u2014and one that can be addressed through low-cost, evidence-based interventions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which appear in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, provide a call to action for clinicians, health systems, patients, and families to prioritize brain health throughout perioperative care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPostoperative delirium isn\u2019t a minor complication\u2014it\u2019s analogous to acute brain failure, a medical emergency that should be recognized and addressed,\u201d said Laurent Glance, MD, a professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and senior author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new large-scale study spotlights postoperative delirium as a preventable and high-impact complication which is driven by patient frailty and surgical stress\u2014and one that can be addressed through low-cost, evidence-based interventions. The findings, which appear in JAMA Network Open, provide a call to action for clinicians, health systems, patients, and families to prioritize brain health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217411","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=217411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}