City-Wide Behavioural Neurology Rounds - D. Seitz: Postoperative Cognitive Decline: Exploring the Relationships between Surgery, Anesthesia, and Cognition

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Presenter:
Dallas Seitz, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry
Queen’s University

Learning objectives:

• Review the cognitive changes observed in the postoperative time period
• Discuss the role of anesthesia in postoperative cognitive dysfunction
• Examine links between exposure to volatile anesthesia and risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease

8:00am - 8:45am: Presentation
8:45am - 9:00am: Interactive session

Location:
Baycrest Hospital
Ben and Hilda Katz Building
2nd floor
Classrooms ABC

This event will be videoconferenced from St. Michael’s to various other participating sites:

• Baycrest Hospital 2nd Floor Classrooms ABC
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A450
• Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
• Bloorview Kids Rehab
• Bridgepoint Health
• The Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie
• Northeast Mental Health Centre, North Bay
• Sudbury Regional Hospital
• Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
We gratefully acknowledge educational grants from Lundbeck Canada Inc., Novartis Inc., and Pfizer Canada which support these rounds

• Rounds are Restricted to Health Care Professionals