Comprehensive coverage created exclusively for ASA along with aggregated articles from sources all over the world with videos, podcasts and the latest top stories in perioperative brain health news.
January 2021
Using Intraoperative EEG to Predict Post-operative Delirium at Duke
Strategies for Implementing a Patient and Family Centered PBHI in Your Practice
December 2020
Instituting a Comprehensive Delirium Prevention Program at UCSF Medical Center
Incorporating Frailty into Preoperative Screening at OHSU
Start Implementing the Mini-Cog to Assess Preoperative Brain Health
Researching Advanced Imaging and Perioperative Brain Health in Basel, Switzerland
Beyond the Mini-Cog: Developing a Perioperative Brain Health Initiative at Keck Hospital
How to Help a Loved One with Post-operative Delirium
Success Strategies for Implementing a HELP Program
October 2020
Practical Ways to Protect Cognitive Function In Older Patients Undergoing Surgery
March 2020
Global Council on Brain Health Report on Delirium
August 2, 2019
Decreasing Postoperative Delirium in Bangkok
May 17, 2019
Keck Medical Center Launches New Brain Health Initiative at USC
April 12, 2019
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Starts Preoperative Cognitive Screening
March 20, 2019
90-Year-Old Researcher Steps It Up to Stay Sharp
January 21, 2019
Making Delirium Prevention the Standard of Care at VUMC
November 28, 2018
Methodist Hospital Makes a Big Commitment to their HELP Program
June 28, 2018
Helping to Prevent One Patient’s Delirium Experience
June 28, 2018
Patients Riding Bikes in Bed in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Bayview
June 22, 2018
Volunteers Make HELP Happen at the University of Utah Hospital
June 22, 2018
It Takes a Village of Volunteers to Prevent Delirium at Methodist Hospital
May 31, 2018
U.K. Patients Watch a Movie During Surgery
May 10, 2018
Creative Approaches to Soothing Patients at Risk for Delirium
May 10, 2018
Research Round-Up: Anesthesia and the Geriatric Population
May 2, 2018 updated May 10, 2018
Spotlight On: Tufts Medical Center’s Initiatives to Prevent Postoperative Delirium
April 19, 2018
Hospital Prevention Program Reduces Perioperative Delirium
April 19, 2018
Science Article Sparks Perioperative Brain Health Patients Stories
Delirium Is Common In Covid-19 ICU Patients, But It Can Be Prevented
Jackie Rocheleau | Forbes | January 2021
Effect of Cognitive Prehabilitation on the Incidence of Postoperative Delirium Among Older Adults Undergoing Major Noncardiac Surgery
Michelle L. Humeidan, MD, PhD | JAMA Surgery | November 2020
ICUs become a 'delirium factory' for Covid-19 patients
Liz Szabo | Kaiser Health News | June 2020
In-Hospital Delirium Increases Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction Risk in Older Adults, But Only in the First Month
ASA staff | May 2019
What it takes to get patients over 65 through surgery
Stacey Burling | The Inquirer (Philadelphia) | February 27, 2019
Acetaminophen significantly reduced in-hospital delirium
Science Daily | February 19, 2019
Lower Anesthesia May Not Reduce Post-Op Delirium
Judy George | Medpage Today | February 5, 2019
Protecting Brain Health: A Call to Action for Nursing Leaders
AORN Periop Today Newsletter | January 2019
The Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia
Sharon Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. | Milken Institute | October 2018
When ICU Delirium Leads To Symptoms Of Dementia After Discharge
NPR | October 2018
Anesthesia, surgery linked to decline in memory and thanking.
Science Daily | July 2018
Understanding How Drug Reduces Confusion in Older Patients After Surgery May Lead to Better Care
ASA staff | June 2018
Anesthesia Alert: Prevent Post-op Brain Fog in Older Patients
Lee Fleisher, M.D. | Outpatient Surgery Magazine | May 2018
Postop delirium management proposed as hospital performance measure
By Alicia Gallegos | The Hospitalist | May 25, 2018
What We Know And Don’t Know About Memory Loss After Surgery
By Judith Graham | Washington Post Health & Science | April 12, 2018
ASA Perioperative Brain Health Initiative: A Call to Action
Lee A. Fleisher, M.D.; Carol J. Peden, M.B.Ch.B., M.D., M.P.H. | ASA Monitor | April 2018
ASA Brain Health Initiative: Advances in the Science
Stacie Deiner, M.S., M.D.; Roderic G. Eckenhoff, M.D. | ASA Monitor | April 2018
Perioperative Brain Health Initiative featured on Sirius XM 'Doctor Radio'
Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, discussed postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD).
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