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NIDUS is a collaborative, multidisciplinary network dedicated to the acceleration of scientific discovery in delirium research, through focused collaboration and creation of sustainable infrastructure to enhance innovative and high-quality research. NIDUS was created in response to a call from the National Institutes on Aging to support a collaborative network to advance scientific research on the causes, mechanisms, outcomes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of delirium in older adults.

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Olivier Huet, MD, PhD

Prevention of postoperative delirium using an overnight infusion of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A pragmatic, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial

Contributed by Olivier Huet, MD, PhD, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Background Postoperative delirium is acknowledged to have a significant negative impact on patient outcome after cardiac surgery including long-term cognitive decline. To date, there is no specific treatment for postoperative delirium 1. Prevention of postoperative delirium primarily relies on patient re-orientation, mobility and […]

Investigator of the Month (September 2024): Robert Sanders

Professor Robert Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, DABA, FRCA, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience and MBBS (medicine) followed by specialist training in Anaesthetics. During that time, he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding […]