General anesthesia and cognitive impairment

This thesis describes clinical and laboratory studies of the relationship between general anesthesia and cognitive impairment. Clinical studies investigated whether anesthetics with faster elimination pharmacokinetics would improve recovery in patients at high-risk of developing short-term cognit...

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Main Author: Butterfield, Noam Nahum Douglas
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15873