Lidocaine administration before tracheal extubation cannot reduce post-operative cognition disorders in elderly patients

Background: Cognitive dysfunction after surgery is common in elderly patients. Many factors such as anesthetic drugs can cause complication in this surgery. Lidocaine is one of the drugs commonly used during anesthesia. So, we designed this study to find out cognitive effect of lidocaine in elderly...

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Main Authors: Sayed Jalal Hashemi, Sayed Morteza Heidari, Azadeh Rahavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
Series:Advanced Biomedical Research
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Online Access:http://www.advbiores.net/article.asp?issn=2277-9175;year=2013;volume=2;issue=1;spage=81;epage=81;aulast=Hashemi