Post-operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) and Delirium in Patients Undergoing Two-stage Liver Operation - a Pilotstudy
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients undergoing a planned elective in situ split liver operation with following
resection after approximately ten days with or without additional elective surgery in
the same session at the University Hospital, Campus Virchow-Klinikum of the Charité -
University Medicine Berlin
- Patients aged greater than or equal to 18 years
- Patients of both genders
- Offered patient information and written informed consent
- No participation in another clinical trial according to the German Drug Law (AMG)
during the trial and one month before inclusion
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lacking willingness to save and hand out pseudonymised data within the clinical study
- Accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order
- Staff of Charite University hospital Berlin, Virchow Klinikum
- Illiteracy
- Unability of German language use
- Visual and acustical impairment
- core on the mini mental state examination (MMSE) at screening of 23 or less
- American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) Classification greater than IV
- Ascertained psychiatric disease
- Intake of psychotropic drugs (including sleeping pills and Benzodiazepine)
- Symptomatic bradycardia
- Symptomatic heart rhythm disorder (arrhythmia)
- Coronary heart disease Canadian Society of Anaesthesiologists criteria (CSC) stadium
IV or the presentation of a coronary heart disease that needs intervention