Postoperative cognitive dysfunction

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction ( POCD ) ( engl. ' Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction ( POCD ) ) is a disorder of cognition after surgery.

To detect the dysfunctions one uses a test battery that covers the various domains of cognition ( eg, memory, learning and concentration ). The values ​​are compared preoperative and postoperative with a comparison group without surgery but with the same time interval to compensate for the learning effect.

So discovered by John Ridley Stroop Stroop effect was tested, for example, as a test of the battery of ISPOCD (International Study of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction ).