Newswise — American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) hosts 1st Brain Health Summit
WHAT: The Brain Health Summit will be the first meeting of medical experts, government agencies and other interested non-profit groups convening to discuss delayed cognitive recovery and postoperative delirium in elderly patients after surgery and anesthesia. The Brain Health Summit will explore the assessment and identification of at-risk patients, evaluate the need for educational materials for patients and their health care providers to increase patient safety, and promote advocacy efforts to fund research regarding these complications.
WHEN: Thursday, September 15th
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
WHO: Lee Fleisher, M.D., chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee On Brain Health Initiative, Dripps Professor and chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
Rod Eckenhoff, M.D., Lamont Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, vice chair of research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania;
Miles Berger, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina;
Deb Culley, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston;
Ester Oh, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and co-director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore;
Stacy Deiner, M.D., associate professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York;
Cate Price, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
BACKGROUND: Postoperative delirium and delayed cognitive recovery are complications of significance to the elderly surgical population. The incidence of postoperative delirium ranges from 5--to-15 percent. However, with certain high-risk groups such as hip fracture patients, the range can be between 16-to–62 percent. Immediately after surgery, the incidence of delayed cognitive recovery is high with recovery over a period of months. Unfortunately, postoperative delirium is associated with significant postoperative complications
With over 46 million Americans over the age of 65 postoperative delirium is a major public health issue in this vulnerable population.
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