Acetylcholinesterase in Postoperative Delirium

Heidelberg University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Delirium

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02315846

S452/2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

The level of acetylcholinesterase is suspected to correlate with postoperative delirium. The investigators therefore score patients once preoperatively and twice postoperatively with the german version of the delirium-score NuDESC (Nursing Delirium Screening Scale) and compare the results with the acetylcholinesterase activity, butyrylcholinesterase activity and the serum anticholinergic activity (SAA) at corresponding time points.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Signed written informed consent
• Elective surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Preexisting psychiatric or neurological disease
• No surgery
• Reduced level of consciousness