Design and Organization of the Dexamethasone, Light Anesthesia and Tight Glucose Control (DeLiT) Trial: A factorial trial evaluating the effects of corticosteroids, glucose control, and depth-of-anesthesia on perioperative inflammation and morbidity from major non-cardiac surgery

BMC Anesthesiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Abdelmalak, Basem ^a   Maheshwari, Ankit ^a   Mascha, Edward ^a   Srivastava, Sunita ^a   Marks, Theodore ^a   Tang, WH Wilson ^a   Kurz, Andrea ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMEDICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; STROKE; STUDY DESIGN;

EID: 77954060315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2253-10-11     Document Type: Article

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