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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Oct;33(5):668–673. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000907

Table 2.

Summary of consensus recommendations for postoperative delirium.

Year
Published		 Multi-
component
Intervention		 Pre-operative
Cognitive
Screen		 Depth of
Anesthesia
Monitoring		 Regional
Anesthesia		 Maintenance
of Cerebral
Perfusion		 Fluid
Management		 Medication
management
AGS [12] 2015 Recommended Recommended Recommended Consider N/A N/A Avoid Beers medications
ACS/NSQIP [13] 2016 Recommended Recommended N/A Consider N/A Goal-directed Avoid Beers medications
ESA [14] 2017 Recommended Recommended Recommended N/A Recommended N/A Judicious BZ use
ASA Brain Health [2] 2018 N/A Recommended Recommended Unable to recommend Recommended N/A N/A
POQI-6 [15] 2020 Recommended Recommended Unable to recommend Unable to recommend N/A N/A Avoid Beers medications

Abbreviation: AGS, American Geriatrics Society. ACS/NSQIP, American College of Surgeons / National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. ESA, European Society of Anaesthesiology. BZ, benzodiazepine. ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists. POQI-6: Perioperative Quality Initiative – Sixth Conference.