| Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is one of postoperative psychonosema (POP). POCD is a severe postoperative complication in the elderly patients and affects the quality of life of the patients seriously. Now according to a vast literature on the subject, etiological factors still remain uncertainty, but POCD is multifactor, including age, education, basic diseases, preexisting cognitive status, the type of surgery and anaesthesia and duration, perioperative management and genetic characteristics, etc. The treatment strategies, such as primary prevention of POCD, diagnosis in time and the correct therapy, are the important ones.This article reviews the clinical feature, epidemiology, correlation factors, pathogenesy, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of POCD in order to increase the people's knowledge of it and provide help for the early-time primary prevention. |
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