Perioperative medicine & outcomes

Update of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine evidence-based and consensus-based guideline on postoperative delirium in adult patients

Eur J AnaesthesiolPublished Guideline

Methodological detailsevidence-based and consensus-based, update
  • Evidence-based and consensus-based
  • Update

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Multicomponent preoperative, intra-operative and postoperative preventive measures to reduce the incidence and duration of postoperative delirium (POD)

  2. Modifiable risk factors under anaesthesiologists' control: depth of anaesthesia, appropriate analgesia and haemodynamic stability

Original publication

Update of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine evidence-based and consensus-based guideline on postoperative delirium in adult patients. Eur J Anaesthesiol. Published 30 August 2023. doi:10.1097/eja.0000000000001876

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