ArticleAnnals of geriatric medicine and research2025
Perioperative Risk Factors for Postoperative Delirium in Non-dementia Older Patients after Non-cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia: A Prospective Study.
Article in Annals of geriatric medicine and research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundTo investigate the incidence and perioperative risk factors for postoperative delirium (POD) in non-dementia older patients who underwent anesthesia for non-cardiac surgery.
methodsThis prospective cohort study was conducted on 195 non-dementia older patients, aged 60 years or older, who were hospitalized after non-cardiac surgery and anesthesia. The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit was used to evaluate the occurrence of POD. Incidence of POD was reported. We conducted univariate and multivariate logistic regression to identify the risk factors associated with POD.
resultsA total of 195 patients were enrolled; 172 completed the study. POD occurred in seven patients within three days after anesthesia, which is a 4.1% incidence of POD. Multivariate logistic analysis showed arrhythmia, coagulopathy, urinary comorbidity, minimum intraoperative heart rate, and minimum post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) pain score as independent risk factors for POD. A minimum PACU pain score >1 is the optimum cutoff pain score for developing POD, with a sensitivity of 85.7% and a specificity of 69.1%. The postoperative complication rate and in-hospital mortality were significantly higher for patients with POD compared to those without POD.
conclusionThe incidence of POD in the study population is 4.1%. Arrhythmia, coagulopathy, urinary comorbidity, minimum intraoperative heart rate, and minimum PACU pain score were independent risk factors for POD. The minimum PACU pain score is the strongest independent risk factor of POD. POD is associated with increased postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality rates in non-dementia older patients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.