Cerebral complication in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery is one of the most important elements for the prognosis and rehabilitation. It is significant for the clinicians to recognize, comprehend, prevent and ameliorate the complications of cerebral nervous system. For the purpose of down-regulating brain injury and cerebral complications after cardiac surgery, promoting nosocomial rehabilitation, Cerebral Protection in Cardiac Intensive Care Group, Neural Regeneration and Repair Committee, Chinese Research Hospital Association organizes Chinese medical experts who specialize in cardiac surgery, critical care medicine, extracorporeal circulation, anesthesiology and emergency medicine cooperatively draft Chinese consensus guideline for cerebral protection in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery (2019). Its content includes brain injury classifying risk factors recognizing, treatment protocols formulating, intra-operative cerebral function monitoring, brain protection in intensive care unit (ICU) and drug administration in order to guide the clinical practice.

Cardiac surgery; Cerebral protection; Perioperative period