Posts Tagged ‘cardiac surgery’

Post-Op Delir­i­um’s Toll on Men­tal Func­tion May Linger: Study (US News): “Delir­i­um after car­diac surgery has been thought of as a brief, reversible con­di­tion, but new research is sug­gest­ing that [men­tal] recov­ery for some peo­ple may take much longer than thought, and that there are long-term cog­ni­tive con­se­quences,” said study co-lead author Jane Saczynski,