The quagmire of postoperative delirium: does dose matter?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Closed-loop control of anesthetic state in nonhuman primates.PNAS nexus · 2023
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2. A Real-Time Neurophysiologic Stress Test for the Aging Brain: Novel Perioperative and ICU Applications of EEG in Older Surgical Patients.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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3. Postoperative systemic inflammatory dysregulation and corticosteroids: a narrative review.Anaesthesia · 2023
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4. Sevoflurane dose and postoperative delirium: a prospective cohort analysis.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023
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Corrections and comments

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  Emerging from the quagmire. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2021; 127: 664-6.2022
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  Anaesthetic depth and delirium after major surgery: a randomised clinical trial.2021

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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