• Br J Anaesth · Oct 2023

    Editorial Comment

    Benzodiazepines and postoperative delirium: should we be as cautious as we are?

    • Lisbeth A Evered and Kane O Pryor.
    • Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: lae4004@med.cornell.edu.
    • Br J Anaesth. 2023 Oct 1; 131 (4): 629631629-631.

    AbstractA recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Wang and colleagues in the British Journal of Anaesthesia calls into question the concept that perioperative benzodiazepine administration is associated with development of postoperative delirium in older individuals after anaesthesia and surgery. This editorial focuses on potential bias within the systematic review and addresses major concerns surrounding benzodiazepine use in the older perioperative population.Copyright © 2023 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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