Year: 1979
Type: article
Abstract: Anaesthesia for Day Case Surgery should ensure a rapid patient recovery and swift return to street fitness.It has been reported that even simple general anaesthesia may produce significant postoperative sequelae.1-3To date, no simple, reliable test of anaesthetic recovery exists.Many tests have been extensively studied.4-'Few practising anaesthetists would dispute the fact that memory would be an important function to retain in patients discharged within a few hours of surgery.Following the use of memory and digit span tests for the assessment of organic brain dysfunction after cardiac surgery, 3-15 it was decided to use the same tests to compare the effects of two simple anaesthetic techniques on memory function during the first 3 hr of recovery.
Source: Anaesthesia
Authors: T.W. OGG, H.B.J. FISCHER, D.W. BETHUNE, J.M. COLLIS
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016245750