Impact of dexmedetomidine on the incidence of delirium in elderly patients after cardiac surgery: A randomized controlled trial

• Xue Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Li, Jing Yang

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Jing Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Li, Jing Yang

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

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• Xiao-Lu Nie,

  Affiliation Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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• Yan Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Xue-Ying Li,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Li-Huan Li,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

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• Dong-Xin Wang ,

  * E-mail: wangdongxin@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3205-1836

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• Daqing Ma

  Affiliation Section of Anaesthetics, Pain Management and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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