U.S., March 14 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07470216) titled 'COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT AND POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS AFTER SURGERY: LINKING ANAESTHESIA AND RISK' on March 10.
Brief Summary: Many older people can experience confusion, memory problems, or a decline in their thinking after major surgery. These problems are sometimes called 'postoperative neurocognitive disorders' or PND and can affect recovery and a person's ability to live independently.
We want to find out the best way to study these problems in older patients undergoing surgery. This is a 'feasibility study', which means we are testing our research methods. We want to see if it is possible to ask patients to do memory tests a...