Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module

The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.

Eligibility Module path is as follows:

Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module


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NCT ID: NCT03624595
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥60 years but \<90 years; 2. Scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass under general anesthesia; 3. Expected to stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) for at least 1 night after surgery. Exclusion Criteria: Patients who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded. 1. Refuse to participate in the study; 2. Preoperative history of schizophrenia, epilepsy, Parkinsonism, or myasthenia gravis; 3. Preoperative obstructive sleep apnea (previously diagnosed as obstructive sleep apnea, or the snoring, tiredness, observed apnea, high blood pressure-body mass index, age, neck circumference and gender \[STOP-Bang\] questionnaires ≥3); 4. Inability to communicate during the preoperative period because of coma, profound dementia or language barrier; 5. Preoperative sick sinus syndrome, severe sinus bradycardia (\< 50 beats per minute), or second-degree atrioventricular block or above without pacemaker; 6. Severe hepatic dysfunction (Child-Pugh class C); 7. Severe renal dysfunction (requirement of renal replacement therapy) before surgery; 8. Presence of delirium (diagnosed by the Confusion Assessment Method \[CAM\]/CAM for the Intensive Care Unit \[CAM-ICU\]); 9. Current treatment with dexmedetomidine or clonidine.
Healthy Volunteers: False
Sex: ALL
Minimum Age: 60 Years
Maximum Age: 90 Years
Study: NCT03624595
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT03624595