Abstract
Postoperative cognitive recovery is deeply important to patients and perioperative clinicians. Despite decades of data on "postoperative cognitive decline" (POCD), a research diagnosis based on objective cognitive test performance, perspectives on subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) after modern surgery/anesthesia have not been systematically collected or studied despite their recent inclusion in the 2018 redefinition of "postoperative neurocognitive disorder." The authors describe the alignment between SCC anecdotes and the research diagnosis of POCD, contextualizing these findings using recent literature within and outside anesthesiology. This article prepares anesthesiologists to discuss what is, and is not, known about subjective cognitive recovery after surgery/anesthesia.
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