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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida, College of Medicine - Jacksonville, 653-1 W 8th St, Jacksonville, FL 32209

(Email: connie.haan@jax.ufl.edu).

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Bickert and colleagues [1] have presented their findings using the Neurologic Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) patient assessment tool, in an effort to improve the clinician’s understanding of how patients wake up after cardiac surgery and the factors influencing this process, and they have drawn some early conclusions on these aspects relative to postoperative neurologic outcomes.

This is a useful first step for the NICE study, but it will be important to continue to study the use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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