Rate of Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction After Spinal Anesthesia

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A conventional spinal anesthesia with long-acting drugs (such as bupivacaine) can lead to delays in postoperative recovery, mobilization, delays in discharge from recovery room and in ambulatory surgery. Short-acting local anesthetics (Chloroprocain (Ampres®) and Prilocain (Takipril®)) might be bene...

A conventional spinal anesthesia with long-acting drugs (such as bupivacaine) can lead to delays in postoperative recovery, mobilization, delays in discharge from recovery room and in ambulatory surgery. Short-acting local anesthetics (Chloroprocain (Ampres®) and Prilocain (Takipril®)) might be beneficial in short duration surgery under spinal anesthesia and could improve patients' acceptance for neuroaxial anesthesia as it might improve early recovery and early mobilization. Time to first oral nutritional intake/postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), time to discharge from post-anesthesia recovery unit and time to discharge home after ambulatory operation might be reduced and might reduce incidence of postoperative delirium and neurocognitive disorder after peripheral surgery. It is planned to retrospectively examine a group of surgical patients for the purpose of a comparative descriptive collective. This comparison collective is required for various questions, in particular influencing factors with regard to the postoperative outcomes delirium, neurocognitive disorder and mortality. Only the routine data is used and no additional surveys are performed on these patients. Inclusion criteria such as the study cohort and additionally the inclusion criterion: Spinal anesthesia with another local anesthetic

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