EVALUATION OF POSTOPERATIVE NEUROCOGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Breast cancer is a very common and important disease in the female population around the world. Anesthesia management during surgery for this disease in the postoperative period should be carefully planned. It will be important to examine the neurocognitive effects of anesthesia management in the postoperative period in this patient group. Today, inhaler and total intravenous anesthesia have advantages as well as disadvantages. It would be valuable to examine its neurocognitive effects in this patient group. In this study, the frequently used Mini mental state assessment test and Mini-cog test will be used.With mini mental state assessment, the patient is asked a number of simple questions to evaluate cognitive functions and each question has certain points. Changes in these score levels preoperatively and postoperatively will be compared within each patient. At the end of the study, preoperative and postoperative changes will be compared statistically between the groups.

Breast cancer is a very common and important disease in the female population around the world. Anesthesia management during surgery for this disease in the postoperative period should be carefully planned. It will be important to examine the neurocognitive effects of anesthesia management in the postoperative period in this patient group. Today, inhaler and total intravenous anesthesia have advantages as well as disadvantages. It would be valuable to examine its neurocognitive effects in this patient group. In this study, the frequently used Mini-cog test will be used.With Mini-cog test, the patient is asked a number of simple questions to evaluate cognitive functions and each question has certain points. Changes in these score levels preoperatively and postoperatively will be compared within each patient. At the end of the study, preoperative and postoperative changes will be compared statistically between the groups.