Delirium after coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass surgery: The value of cerebral autoregulation

Greta Kasputytė, Birutė Kumpaitienė, Milda Švagždienė, Judita Andrejaitiene, Edmundas Širvinskas, Yasin Hamarat, Edvinas Chaleckas, Vilma Putnynaitė, Laimonas Bartusis, Rolandas Žakelis, Vytautas Petkus, Arminas Ragauskas, Tadas Lenkutis, Rimantas Benetis, Institute of Cardiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Department of Disaster Medicine, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Health Telematics Science Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Perfusion

Published online on August 18, 2025

Abstract

Perfusion, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 462-469, May 2026.
IntroductionPostoperative delirium affects up to 60% of cardiac surgical patients. No reliable gold standard method exists for preventing delirium after cardiac surgery. An example of patient-personal monitoring is cerebral autoregulation (CA). This study ...