Lighter sedation won’t drop risk of postop delirium

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say a study designed to see if reducing the amount of anesthesia reduces the risk of postoperative delirium in older patients surprisingly found that lighter sedation failed to do so in severely ill people undergoing hip fracture repair. But the study of 200 men and women also showed that for those […]

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