Delirium, steroids, and cardiac surgery

Affiliations

¹ From the *Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, †Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, ‡Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and §Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Editorial

Charles H Brown 4th et al. Anesth Analg. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;119(5):1011-3.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000412.

¹ From the *Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, †Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, ‡Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and §Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Intraoperative dexamethasone and delirium after cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial.
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