Editorial: Post-anesthesia Cognitive Dysfunction: How, When and Why

[...]Turner et al. proposed strategies to improve sleep quality, and stressed the advantage of cognitive rehabilitation program supported by cognitive experts in collaboration with Pediatric Intensive Care Unit workers. [...]a study showed deficiency in short-range rsfMRI connectivity in adult animals after neonatal anesthesia exposure (Drobyshevsky et al., 2020). The influence of inflammation on the post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) has been widely reported (Peng et al., 2013). [...]Zhao et al. proposed a novel predictor of cognitive dysfunction after cardiovascular surgery in older individuals (more than 50 years): the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR). According to their results, LMR has potential to be a preoperative biomarker for POCD, as high-LMR increased the risk of the occurrence of POCD.