My father, 85, seems to have become more negative, aggressive since he's had 2 voice box cancer surgeries within 6 months about 2 years ago. My friend, who works at a seniors home, mentioned this can be an effect of anesthesia for the elderly. I can't seem to find anything about this online. Anyone else heard of this?
Did your Dad have any issues with memory lost prior to surgery? If yes, anesthesia can increase dementia.
I tried to find some information about this here on Aging Care as they have a lot of excellent articles located under CARE TOPICS [right side on blue/green bar at the top of the page] but I couldn't find any articles about this.
I do know that any one of any age when they have anesthesia do have brain fog. For every hour under anesthesia = one month of fog.
I believe this happens coming out of the anesthesia and much later, as stated by FF.
After a cesarean delivery, a patient had to be restrained from violence, cussing, yelling. Imagine my surprise no one had taught that in nursing school.