Despite advances in surgical care over recent decades, major surgery still carries a
significant burden of morbidity. Perioperative research and improvement strategies have …

Perioperative management of older adults is a complex field that is heavily influenced by the
clinical heterogeneity of older adults. Frailty—a geriatric syndrome in which a patient is more …

Introducción: El deterioro cognitivo del paciente anciano es un síndrome que lleva a un
aumento importante de costos sociales y económicos. Objetivos: Esta revisión de la …

Background: A large proportion of older adults with dementia remain undiagnosed,
presenting to hospital with occult dementia, and are at risk for adverse outcomes, especially …

There are few cognitive screening tools appropriate for fast-paced settings with limited
staffing, and particularly in preoperative evaluation clinics. The Society for Perioperative …

Objective: To test the hypothesis that in surgical patients≥ 70 years, preoperative cognitive
impairment is independently associated with postoperative delirium. Background …

Frailty is a loss of functional reserve that compromises a person's ability to cope with
stressors such as surgery. Identifying and quantifying frailty may enable intensive …

Background The Mini-Cog is a rapid screening tool that can be administered to older adults
to detect cognitive impairment (CI); however, the accuracy of the Mini-Cog to detect CI for …

BACKGROUND: Cognitive impairment is common in older surgical patients and is
associated with postoperative delirium. However, cognitive function is inconsistently …

Cognitive impairment predisposes patients to the development of delirium and postoperative
cognitive dysfunction. In particular, in older patients, the adverse sequelae of cognitive …