Noun[edit] The inclusion criteria were: age over 18 years and a clinical indication for an ileocolonoscopy, to assess localization, extent and severity of the presumptive activity of CD (primary diagnosis, clinical relapse or recurrence).
Most people believe anesthesia is the cause of POCD, yet seem to forget that administration of anesthesia is never done without a purpose. This is a curious form of socio-culturally induced selective blindness. No one undergoes anesthesia without undergoing an operation.
When a patient has general anesthesia it causes the body to be basically paralyzed so that no pain can be felt. When the patient is paralyzed, the respiratory muscles are also paralyzed and the patient cannot breathe on his or her own. For this reason the anesthesiologist inserts an endotracheal tube down into the respiratory passage and connects what is called an Ambu bag connected to oxygen.