ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2017
Electroencephalography and delirium in the postoperative period.
Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04643834 (Validation of Cerebral Non-invasive Monitoring and Prediction of Post-operative Delirium and Outcomes), which is not on this map. Cited by 43 papers.
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Validation of Cerebral Non-invasive Monitoring and Prediction of Post-operative Delirium and Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.
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- An Intraoperative EEG Biomarker for Postoperative Delirium Predicting Based on Interpretable Deep Learning Framework.MedComm · 2026Article
- Validation of intraoperative processed electroencephalography and cerebral oximetry for prediction of postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Observational
- The Impact of General Anesthetics on Postoperative Delirium: A Narrative Review Based on Clinical Randomized Controlled Trials from the Last Five Years.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Predicting delirium in critically Ill COVID-19 patients using EEG-derived data: a machine learning approach.GeroScience · 2026Observational
- Dental rehabilitation under general anesthesia in an outpatient setting for a child with a heterozygous BCL11B variant: a case report.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Point-of-care electroencephalography for prediction of postoperative delirium in older adults undergoing elective surgery: protocol for a prospective cohort study.Biology methods & protocols · 2026Review
- Establishment of predictive models for postoperative delirium in elderly patients after knee/hip surgery based on total bilirubin concentration: machine learning algorithms.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
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- Clinical and intracranial electrophysiological signatures of post-operative and post-ictal delirium.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Optimizing Anesthesia Management in Liver Transplantation With Use of Real Time Frontal Electroencephalogram.Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- The EEG is Not Suitable for Diagnosing Delirium, But Can Exclude Epileptic Activity as a Cause.Journal of central nervous system disease · 2025Article
- Quantitative electroencephalography predicts postoperative delirium in adult cardiac surgical patients from a prospective observational study.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- The Presence/Absence of an Awake-State Dominant EEG Rhythm in Delirious Patients Is Related to Different Symptoms of Delirium Evaluated by the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Brain health: A concern for anaesthesiologists and intensivists.European journal of anaesthesiology and intensive care · 2024Review
- Applying a transformer architecture to intraoperative temporal dynamics improves the prediction of postoperative delirium.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- An 8-Year 5-Month-Old Boy with a Basal Ganglia Lesion with Triphasic Waves on Electroencephalogram.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
- Recovery of consciousness after acute brain injury: a narrative review.Journal of intensive care · 2024Review
- International Delirium Pathophysiology & Electrophysiology Network for Data sharing (iDEPEND).BJA open · 2024Article
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Abstract
Delirium commonly manifests in the postoperative period as a clinical syndrome resulting from acute brain dysfunction or encephalopathy. Delirium is characterized by acute and often fluctuating changes in attention and cognition. Emergence delirium typically presents and resolves within minutes to hours after termination of general anaesthesia. Postoperative delirium hours to days after an invasive procedure can herald poor outcomes. Easily recognized when patients are hyperactive or agitated, delirium often evades diagnosis as it most frequently presents with hypoactivity and somnolence. EEG offers objective measurements to complement clinical assessment of this complex fluctuating disorder. Although EEG features of delirium in the postoperative period remain incompletely characterized, a shift of EEG power into low frequencies is a typical finding shared among encephalopathies that manifest with delirium. In aggregate, existing data suggest that serial or continuous EEG in the postoperative period facilitates monitoring of delirium development and severity and assists in detecting epileptic aetiologies. Future studies are needed to clarify the precise EEG features that can reliably predict or diagnose delirium in the postoperative period, and to provide mechanistic insights into this pathologically diverse neurological disorder.
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