Sedation depth and mortality: a large randomized trial is required

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¹ From the *Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; †Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School and ‡Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; §Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and ‖Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Kate Leslie et al. Anesth Analg. 2014 May.

. 2014 May;118(5):903-5.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000210.

¹ From the *Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; †Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School and ‡Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; §Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and ‖Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Sedation depth during spinal anesthesia and survival in elderly patients undergoing hip fracture repair.
Brown CH 4th, Azman AS, Gottschalk A, Mears SC, Sieber FE. Brown CH 4th, et al. Anesth Analg. 2014 May;118(5):977-80. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000157. Anesth Analg. 2014. PMID: 24781567 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.