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Best anasthetic for older patients to avoid contributihng to any Alzheimers or other dementia?

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sheilafinnMay 18, 2023

I have read that anesthesia can exacerbate the clumps and taus that make up Alzheimers. Anesthesia does not itself cause dimentia but it may contribute to a hastening of clumps and taus. I am 67 and dimentia has run in my family although not linearly. I would like to avoid it obviously, so I would like to be sedated in a way that has the least ability of damaging my brain but also keeps me from feeling and waking up during the procedure. The procedure is facelift, fat transer, lip lift.

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