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"Triple low": murderer, mediator, or mirror.

scientific article published in June 2012

A Qualitative Study of Perioperative Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

A comparison of the intubating and standard laryngeal mask airways for airway management by inexperienced personnel.

scientific article published in April 2001

A cricket with no legs cannot hear

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

A novel classification instrument for intraoperative awareness events.

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A phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study on the efficacy of recombinant human antithrombin in heparin-resistant patients scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery necessitating cardiopulmonary bypass

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

A randomized study in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery comparing computer-guided glucose management with a standard sliding scale protocol

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

Ability of postoperative delirium to predict intermediate-term postoperative cognitive function in patients undergoing elective surgery at an academic medical centre: protocol for a prospective cohort study.

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Ability of preoperative falls to predict postsurgical outcomes in non-selected patients undergoing elective surgery at an academic medical centre: protocol for a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Achieving Milestones as a Prerequisite for Proceeding With a Clinical Trial.

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Alerting thresholds for the prevention of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: a secondary analysis of the Michigan Awareness Control Study

scientific article published on May 2015

Alternative Facts? Antidepressants and Falls in Older Adults

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Amnesia of the Operating Room in the B-Unaware and BAG-RECALL Clinical Trials.

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

An unexpected complication of the intubating laryngeal mask

article by A Choyce et al published 1 July 1999 in Anaesthesia

Anesthesia awareness and the bispectral index.

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Anesthesiology Control Tower: Feasibility Assessment to Support Translation (ACT-FAST)-a feasibility study protocol.

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Anesthesiology Control Tower: Feasibility Assessment to Support Translation (ACTFAST) a mixed methods study of a novel telemedicine-based support system for the operating room (Preprint)

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Anesthesiology Control Tower: Feasibility Assessment to Support Translation (ACTFAST) a mixed methods study of a novel telemedicine-based support system for the operating room (Preprint)

Assessing change in patient-reported quality of life after elective surgery: protocol for an observational comparison study

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Assessment of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: a comparison of 2 methods.

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Association between intraoperative electroencephalographic suppression and postoperative mortality.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Association of perioperative risk factors and cumulative duration of low bispectral index with intermediate-term mortality after cardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial

scientific article published in May 2010

Auditing the national audit projects: impact and implementation

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

Awake intubation of the difficult airway with the intubating laryngeal mask airway.

scientific article published in July 1998

Awareness during anaesthesia

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Beware the Boojum: the NAP5 audit of accidental awareness during intended general anaesthesia.

scientific article published in October 2014

Bispectral index monitoring, duration of bispectral index below 45, patient risk factors, and intermediate-term mortality after noncardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial.

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Black swans: challenging the relationship of anaesthetic-induced unconsciousness and electroencephalographic oscillations in the frontal cortex.

scientific article published in October 2017

Brain Monitoring with Electroencephalography and the Electroencephalogram-Derived Bispectral Index During Cardiac Surgery ⬇️

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Building a collaborative culture in cardiothoracic operating rooms: pre and postintervention study protocol for evaluation of the implementation of teamSTEPPS training and the impact on perceived psychological safety

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Capturing covert consciousness

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Case report: Volitional delay of self-reported outcomes: insights from a case of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall.

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

Case report: inferior vena-cava right atrial anastomotic stenosis after bicaval orthotopic heart transplantation.

scientific article published in October 2006

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units.

scientific article published in September 2004

Central-Positive Complexes: A Novel Characterization of Ictal Markers Induced During Electroconvulsive Therapy

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Changes in quality of life after elective surgery: an observational study comparing two measures.

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Cognitive Change After Cardiac Surgery Versus Cardiac Catheterization: A Population-Based Study

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Cognitive Improvement in Older Adults in the Year After Hip Fracture: Implications for Brain Resilience in Advanced Aging

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Cognitive and Neurophysiological Recovery Following Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Study Protocol.

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Cognitive flexibility and persistent post-surgical pain: the FLEXCAPP prospective observational study

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Comment on the PODCAST study - Authors' reply.

scientific article published in November 2017

Comorbidities As Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Accrual After Diagnosis

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Comparison of laryngeal mask and intubating laryngeal mask insertion by the naïve intubator.

scientific article published in January 2000

Comparison of structured use of routine laboratory tests or near-patient assessment with clinical judgement in the management of bleeding after cardiac surgery.

scientific article published in February 2004

Concurrence of Intraoperative Hypotension, Low Minimum Alveolar Concentration, and Low Bispectral Index Is Associated with Postoperative Death

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Contaminated heparin and outcomes after cardiac surgery: a retrospective propensity-matched cohort study

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Continuing professional development module : An updated introduction to electroencephalogram-based brain monitoring during intended general anesthesia

scientific article published on 15 November 2020

Convection warmers — not just hot air ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Convergent Validity of Three Methods for Measuring Postoperative Complications

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Correction to: An updated introduction to electroencephalogram-based brain monitoring during intended general anesthesia

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Deep-learning model for predicting 30-day postoperative mortality

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Delirium after surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement is associated with increased mortality

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Dementia and sensitivity to anesthetics.

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Desirudin: a review of the pharmacology and clinical application for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis.

scientific article published on September 2011

Don't crush the sensitive snout. Reply to: Sensitivity is not enough

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Duration of EEG suppression does not predict recovery time or degree of cognitive impairment after general anaesthesia in human volunteers

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Early Postoperative Actigraphy Poorly Predicts Hypoactive Delirium

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Effect of Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthetic Administration on Postoperative Delirium Among Older Adults Undergoing Major Surgery: The ENGAGES Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Effect of Resident Gender and Surname Origin on Clinical Load: Observational Cohort Study in an Internal Medicine Continuity Clinic

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Effects of regional versus general anesthesia on outcomes after total hip arthroplasty: a retrospective propensity-matched cohort study.

scientific article published on February 2015

Electroencephalography and delirium in the postoperative period.

scientific article published on August 2017

Electronic medical record interventions and recurrent perioperative antibiotic administration: a before-and-after study

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Estimation of the bispectral index by anesthesiologists: an inverse turing test

scientific article published on May 2011

Evidence is lacking for interventions proposed to prevent unintended awareness during general anesthesia for cesarean delivery.

scientific article published in March 2010

Fibreoptic views through the laryngeal mask and the intubating laryngeal mask

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Frailty Phenotypes and Relations With Surgical Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

General Anesthesia Does Not Have Persistent Effects on Attention in Rodents

Human neural correlates of sevoflurane-induced unconsciousness

scientific article published in October 2017

Hypnotic depth and postoperative death: a Bayesian perspective and an Independent Discussion of a clinical trial

Impact of Cognitive Impairment Across Specialties: Summary of a Report From the U13 Conference Series

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Impact of anesthesia management characteristics on severe morbidity and mortality: are we convinced?

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Impact of gender on the myocardial metabolic response to obesity.

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Impact of right-handedness on anaesthetic sensitivity, intra-operative awareness and postoperative mortality.

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In reply: Analysis of perioperative antibiotic administration in electronic medical records: correlations among patients addressed by analyzing control chart data using the batch means method.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Incidence, predictors and outcomes of postoperative coma: an observational study of 858,606 patients

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Increased risk of intraoperative awareness in patients with a history of awareness.

scientific article published in December 2013

Independent discussion sections for improving inferential reproducibility in published research

Inhaled prostacyclin is safe, effective, and affordable in patients with pulmonary hypertension, right heart dysfunction, and refractory hypoxemia after cardiothoracic surgery.

scientific article published in April 2004

Intraoperative Electroencephalogram Suppression Predicts Postoperative Delirium.

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Intraoperative awareness risk, anesthetic sensitivity, and anesthetic management for patients with natural red hair: a matched cohort study.

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Intraoperative awareness: controversies and non-controversies

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Intraoperative awareness: from neurobiology to clinical practice.

scientific article published on May 2011

Intraoperative electroencephalogram suppression at lower volatile anaesthetic concentrations predicts postoperative delirium occurring in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Intraoperative ketamine for prevention of depressive symptoms after major surgery in older adults: an international, multicentre, double-blind, randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Intraoperative ketamine for prevention of postoperative delirium or pain after major surgery in older adults: an international, multicentre, double-blind, randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Intrapatient reproducibility of the BISxp monitor

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Investigating Asthma, Allergic Disease, Passive Smoke Exposure, and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Investigating the impact of disease and health record duration on the eMERGE algorithm for rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Isoflurane-induced neuroapoptosis in the neonatal rhesus macaque brain.

scientific article published on April 2010

Ketamine infusion for patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: a case series

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Ketamine-induced neuroapoptosis in the fetal and neonatal rhesus macaque brain

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Long-term cognitive decline in older subjects was not attributable to noncardiac surgery or major illness.

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Low complication rate associated with cesarean section under spinal anesthesia for HIV-1-infected women on antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published in August 2002

Low-dose intrathecal morphine does not delay early extubation after cardiac surgery

scientific article published in October 2005

Methodologic Considerations for Collecting Patient-reported Outcomes from Unselected Surgical Patients.

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Mild hypercapnia after uncomplicated heart surgery is not associated with hemodynamic compromise.

scientific article published on 18 May 2006

Mind the gap: attitudes towards intraoperative brain monitoring.

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Minimum alveolar concentration: ongoing relevance and clinical utility.

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Monitoring hirudin anticoagulation in two patients undergoing cardiac surgery with a plasma-modified act method

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Monitoring the brain strikes a discordant note for anesthesiologists.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Monitoring the brain: processed electroencephalogram and peri-operative outcomes

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Morbidity and mortality associated with accidentally entrapped pulmonary artery catheters during cardiac surgery: a case series

scientific article published on 04 April 2006

Network Efficiency and Posterior Alpha Patterns Are Markers of Recovery from General Anesthesia: A High-Density Electroencephalography Study in Healthy Volunteers

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Network for Investigation of Delirium Across the U.S. (NIDUS): Advancing the Field of Delirium with a New Interdisciplinary Research Network

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

Network for Investigation of Delirium across the U.S.: Advancing the Field of Delirium with a New Interdisciplinary Research Network

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Neurological complications of surgery and anaesthesia.

scientific article published on 08 September 2014

Neurotoxicity of general anaesthesia is hypothetical

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New nomenclature: Clarion call or siren song. Reply to: perioperative cognitive disorders.

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Normal Brain Response to Propofol in Advance of Recovery from Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome.

scientific article published on 2 June 2016

Obstructive sleep apnea as an independent predictor of postoperative delirium and pain: protocol for an observational study of a surgical cohort.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Obstructive sleep apnea screening and postoperative mortality in a large surgical cohort

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Off-label use of recombinant factor VIIA concentrates after cardiac surgery

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Old vaccines for new infections: Exploiting innate immunity to control COVID-19 and prevent future pandemics

scientific article published in 2021

Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units

scientific article published on April 2007

Performance of certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists in a simulation-based skills assessment

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Performance of residents and anesthesiologists in a simulation-based skill assessment.

scientific article published in November 2007

Perioperative cognitive trajectory in adults

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Perioperative mortality in developed and developing countries.

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Pharmacologic approaches to the prevention of intraoperative awareness.

scientific article published in May 2011

Pharmacology and clinical applications of human recombinant antithrombin.

scientific article published on July 2010

Plasma exchange for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: is there enough evidence?

scientific article published in January 2010

Point-of-care assessment of haemostasis after cardiopulmonary bypass

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Poor inter-rater reliability on mock anesthesia oral examinations.

scientific article published on July 2006

Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Overinterpretation of Data? ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Postoperative cognitive decline: the unsubstantiated phenotype

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Postoperative cognitive trajectories in adults: the role of inflammatory processes

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Postoperative delirium

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Postoperative delirium in a substudy of cardiothoracic surgical patients in the BAG-RECALL clinical trial.

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Postoperative delirium portends descent to dementia.

scientific article published in August 2017

Postoperative delirium: disconnecting the network?

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Postoperative recovery with bispectral index versus anesthetic concentration-guided protocols.

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Potential of xenon to induce or to protect against neuroapoptosis in the developing mouse brain

scientific article published in July 2008

Power of negative thinking.

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Predicting Hospital Readmission via Cost-Sensitive Deep Learning

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Predicting geriatric falls following an episode of emergency department care: a systematic review

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Prediction and management of bleeding in cardiac surgery.

scientific article published on July 2009

Preoperative Cognitive Abnormality, Intraoperative Electroencephalogram Suppression, and Postoperative Delirium: A Mediation Analysis

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Preoperative Falls Predict Postoperative Falls, Functional Decline, and Surgical Complications

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Preoperative Falls and Their Association with Functional Dependence and Quality of Life.

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Preoperative use of enoxaparin increases the risk of postoperative bleeding and re-exploration in cardiac surgery patients

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Prevalence and predictors of exposure to disruptive behaviour in the operating room

Prevalence of undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea among adult surgical patients in an academic medical center

scientific article published on 30 January 2009

Preventing postoperative delirium: all that glisters is not gold

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

Prevention of awareness during general anesthesia ⬇️

scientific article published on January 21, 2009

Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population

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Prevention of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall in an unselected surgical population: a randomized comparative effectiveness trial.

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Prevention of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: making sense of the evidence

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Pride and Prejudice in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Acutely Ill Older Adults

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Processed electroencephalogram in depth of anesthesia monitoring

scientific article published on October 2009

Protecting healthcare workers: A critical part of the COVID-19 response

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Protocol for a multicentre, prospective cohort study of practice patterns and clinical outcomes associated with emergency department sedation for mechanically ventilated patients: the ED-SED Study

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Protocol for a proof-of-concept observational study evaluating the potential utility and acceptability of a telemedicine solution for the post-anesthesia care unit

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Protocol for a proof-of-concept study evaluating systematic quality improvement with Realtime event support (SQUIRES)

scientific article published in 2022

Protocol for an observational study of delirium in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) as a potential predictor of subsequent postoperative delirium.

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Protocol for the "Michigan Awareness Control Study": A prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing electronic alerts based on bispectral index monitoring or minimum alveolar concentration for the prevention of intraoperative awareness

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Protocol for the BAG-RECALL clinical trial: a prospective, multi-center, randomized, controlled trial to determine whether a bispectral index-guided protocol is superior to an anesthesia gas-guided protocol in reducing intraoperative awareness with e

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

Protocol for the Effectiveness of an Anesthesiology Control Tower System in Improving Perioperative Quality Metrics and Clinical Outcomes: the TECTONICS randomized, pragmatic trial

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Protocol for the Electroencephalography Guidance of Anesthesia to Alleviate Geriatric Syndromes (ENGAGES) study: a pragmatic, randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Protocol for the Reconstructing Consciousness and Cognition (ReCCognition) Study

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Protocol for the electroencephalography guidance of anesthesia to alleviate geriatric syndromes (ENGAGES-Canada) study: A pragmatic, randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Protocol for the perioperative outcome risk assessment with computer learning enhancement (Periop ORACLE) randomized study

scientific article published in 2022

Psychological sequelae of surgery in a prospective cohort of patients from three intraoperative awareness prevention trials.

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Psychological trajectories after intraoperative awareness with explicit recall

scientific article published in July 2014

Recent Advances in Preventing and Managing Postoperative Delirium

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Recombinant human antithrombin III restores heparin responsiveness and decreases activation of coagulation in heparin-resistant patients during cardiopulmonary bypass.

scientific article published in July 2005

Recommendations and Alerting for Delirium Alleviation in Real-Time (RADAR): Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Reconceptualising stroke research to inform the question of anaesthetic neurotoxicity

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

Reduce the burden of dementia now

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2.

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Relationship between bispectral index values and volatile anesthetic concentrations during the maintenance phase of anesthesia in the B-Unaware trial.

scientific article published on December 2011

Reporting and classification of patient safety events in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit and cardiothoracic postoperative care unit

scientific article published on October 2005

Respiratory diseases as risk factors for seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis and in relation to smoking

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates of Sevoflurane-induced Unconsciousness

scientific article published in August 2015

Review of clinical evidence for persistent cognitive decline or incident dementia attributable to surgery or general anesthesia

scientific article published on January 2011

Review of perioperative falls.

scientific article published on December 2016

Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease. Preoperative aspirin does increase risk of perioperative bleeding

scientific article published on July 1999

Stable and dynamic cortical electrophysiology of induction and emergence with propofol anesthesia

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Study protocol for the Anesthesiology Control Tower-Feedback Alerts to Supplement Treatments (ACTFAST-3) trial: a pilot randomized controlled trial in intraoperative telemedicine

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Surgery and the plastic brain.

scientific article published in March 2012

Systematic review of falls in older adults with cancer

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Target concentrations of remifentanil with propofol to blunt coughing during intubation, cuff inflation, and tracheal suctioning.

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The Fallacy of Persistent Postoperative Cognitive Decline.

scientific article published in February 2016

The Prevention of Delirium and Complications Associated with Surgical Treatments (PODCAST) study: protocol for an international multicentre randomised controlled trial.

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The cardiovascular response to insertion of the intubating laryngeal mask airway.

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The diving bell and the butterfly

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

The effects of aprotinin on thromboelastography with three different activators.

scientific article published in November 2001

The evidence that deep anesthesia impacts long term mortality is not compelling

scientific article published in December 2005

The impact of bispectral index versus end-tidal anesthetic concentration-guided anesthesia on time to tracheal extubation in fast-track cardiac surgery.

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

The incidence of intra-operative awareness in the UK: under the rate or under the radar?

scientific article published in April 2013

The incidence of intraoperative awareness in the UK: under the rate or under the radar?

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

The intubating laryngeal mask airway compared with direct laryngoscopy.

scientific article published in October 1999

The occurrence of antibodies to heparin-platelet factor 4 in cardiac and thoracic surgical patients receiving desirudin or heparin for postoperative venous thrombosis prophylaxis

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

The relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea and postoperative delirium and pain: an observational study of a surgical cohort

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

The suffering and satisfaction of Schrödinger's cat

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

Three blind mice: a tail of discordant trials

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Trajectories of depressive symptoms after hip fracture.

scientific article published on May 2016

Transthoracic echocardiography: impact on diagnosis and management in tertiary care intensive care units.

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Triple low, double low: it's time to deal Achilles heel a single deadly blow.

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Use of the Patient State Index (PSI) to assist in the diagnosis of perioperative neurological injury and brain death.

scientific article published in June 2005

Use of the confusion assessment method in multicentre delirium trials: training and standardisation

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Using machine learning techniques to develop forecasting algorithms for postoperative complications: protocol for a retrospective study.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Variability indices of processed electroencephalography and electromyography.

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We may be Homo sapiens, but anaesthetists are merely apes when evaluating risk

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

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