Yujuan Li, Dongtai Chen, Hanbing Wang, Zhi Wang, Furong Song, Hui Li, Li Ling, Zhiwen Shen, Chuwen Hu, Jun Peng, Weixing Li, Wei Xing, Jiahao Pan, Hua Liang, Qiaoling Zhou, Jun Cai, Ziqing He, Shuling Peng, Weian Zeng, Zhiyi Zuo
BACKGROUND: Delayed neurocognitive recovery after surgery is associated with poor outcome. Most surgeries require general anesthesia, of which sevoflurane and propofol are the most commonly used inhalational and intravenous anesthetics. The authors tested the primary hypothesis that patients with laparoscopic abdominal surgery under propofol-based anesthesia have a lower incidence of delayed neurocognitive recovery than patients under sevoflurane-based anesthesia. A second hypothesis is that there were blood biomarkers for predicting delayed neurocognitive recovery to occur...
January 13, 2021: Anesthesiology