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Delirium after cardiac surgery. Incidence, phenotypes, predisposing and precipitating risk factors, and effects.
Heart & lung : the journal of critical care - 1 Jan 2000
Sanson Gianfranco, Khlopenyuk Yuliya, Milocco Sara, Sartori Massimiliano, Dreas Lorella, Fabiani Adam
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BACKGROUND: In cardiac surgical patients little is known about different phenotypes of delirium and how the symptoms fluctuate over time. OBJECTIVES: Evaluate risk factors, incidence, fluctuations, phenotypic characteristics and impact on patients' outcomes of delirium. METHODS: Prospective longitudinal study. In postoperative intensive care unit 199 patient were assessed three-times a day through an adapted...
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