Risk Factors for Delirium Following Cardiac Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will evaluate several potential risk factors for postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients. The risk factors will include use of specific preoperative, intraoperative, and/or postoperative medications. Other risk factors investigated may include exposure to cardiopulmonary bypass, surgical technique, and or duration of surgery.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Vanderbilt University
• Treatments: Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), CABG+valve(s), valve only)

*depending on the study - OR aortic valve replacement (will include patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and patients undergoing only aortic valve replacement with CPB)

Exclusion Criteria:

Emergency cases will be excluded.

*depending on the study - Patients undergoing any valve replacement surgery other than aortic valve