| Modern anesthesia has an increasing number of made it viable to perform complicated surgical procedures and diagnostic
strategies for patients with confidence and led to great advances inside the medical discipline.the aim of the study
Impermanent of memory in patients go through the general anesthesia along with contributing factors. This cross?sectional
study was performed in a Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical sciences, Pondicherry, Patients with the American
Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Class I, II, and III who were candidates for elective abdominal surgery were enrolled.
Patients answered several questions based on the Wechsler Memory Scale– Revised V (WMS?R?V), a standardized
questionnaire, minutes before entering the operating room (OR) and again after 24h postoperation, and the differences were
recorded. Five hundred patients belonging to ASA Class I–III who were candidates for elective abdominal surgery and GA
were enrolled in present study. Our study population consisted of 198 (40%) females and 302 (60.4%) males between the
age of 8 and 18 years. GA affects the short?time period memory, and its most impact is on range repeat. There has been
general anaesthesia for non-obligatory surgical procedure in younger youngsters does no longer look like related to
declines in working memory, processing velocity, and quality motor skills within the first 3 months postoperatively, even
in kids who have prior exposure to general anaesthesia.GA notably reduces the patient’s short?term memory after the
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