Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Town Hall: Evaluating the Older Patient for Surgery [Video]

Click here to see Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Subcommittee Chair, Dr. Carol Peden, and a panel of brain health experts and thought leaders discuss:

  • Cognitive evaluations using telemedicine, Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP/CN
  • Blood based biomarkers to assess perioperative vulnerability, Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD
  • Intraoperative EEG to assess perioperative vulnerability, Miles Berger, MD, PhD  
  • Delirium and COVID-19, M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD

Moderators:
Carol J. Peden, MB, ChB, MD, FRCA, FICM, MPH
Roderic Eckenhoff, MD
Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD

Patient Describes Postoperative Delirium Experience [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, interviews Irv, who experienced several postoperative delirium episodes during his 51 hours of hospitalization. He described his hallucinations so intense he thought he would fall out of bed. | July 24, 2018

Update on Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder (PND) research [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, provides an update on Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder (PND) research and the Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Summit at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2018. | October 15, 2018

Interview with Patient About Postoperative Delirium [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, interviews Kathy, a woman who experienced postoperative delirium shortly after a procedure. Her “memory fog” was acknowledged by her surgeon but lasted longer than expected. | July 24, 2018

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