Preventing delirium: beyond dexmedetomidine

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¹ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: sinziana.avramescu@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Sinziana Avramescu et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 11;389(10073):1009.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30661-X.

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: sinziana.avramescu@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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