Kenneth C. Cummings, MD, MS
San Francisco—Older surgical patients who performed poorly on preoperative cognitive evaluations exhibited greater 30-day readmission rates than their counterparts who achieved normal values on these tests. Results are preliminary.
“As we all know, perioperative neurocognitive dysfunction is a significant problem,” said Kenneth C. Cummings, MD, MS, an anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio. “It persists for several months in a