Students

Name: Dr MU Jing Lan Grace(???)

Post: Full-time Ph.D (3-years)

Enrolled: September 2012 - 2015

Origin:Mainland China, Shannxi Province

Supervisor:Prof. Anna LEE & Prof. Gavin Joynt

Title of Thesis:

Delirium in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery

Current Employment:

Post-doctoral fellow
School of Chinese Medicine The University of Hong Kong

Outline of the Thesis:
Delirium, defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition), is a syndrome characterized by the “acute onset of cerebral dysfunction with changes in mental status, attention, awareness and cognition”. Cardiac surgery is a high-risk operation associated with delirium. At Hong Kong, there is a lack of knowledge about the magnitude and management of post-cardiac surgery delirium in our patients.
The aims of my thesis will be three folds. Firstly, the current state of knowledge of pharmacological methods for the prevention and treatment of ICU delirium after cardiac surgery is going to be evaluated. Secondly, the magnitude of the ICU delirium problem in post cardiac surgical patients in Hong Kong will be defined and the performance of three commonly used risk prediction models in our patients will be studied. At last, the association of the three subtypes of delirium and fast track failure is going to be examined.

Publications:
A) Scientific Papers:

1. Mu JL, Lee A, Joynt GM. Pharmacological Agents for the Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Systematic Review and Metaanalysis. Crit Care Med. 2015 Jan;43(1):194-204.

 (B) Conference Abstracts:

1. MU, Jinglan; LEE Anna; LEUNG Pui Nga Patricia; CHIU Chun Hung; UNDERWOOD Malcolm John and JOYNT Gavin Matthew.  "Comparative Performance of Three Risk Prediction Models for Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Surgery, and Association with Fast-Track Failure".  Intensive Care Medicine vol.40 no.Suppl. 1, p.S292. France, 2014.10.
2. MU, Jinglan; LEE Anna and JOYNT Gavin Matthew.  "Pharmacological Agents for The Prevention of Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review".  Anesthesia and Intensive Care vol 42, no.1, p.120. 2014.01

(C) Conference presentations

1. MU, Jinglan; LEE Anna; LEUNG Pui Nga Patricia; CHIU Chun Hung; UNDERWOOD Malcolm John and JOYNT Gavin Matthew.  "Comparative Performance of Three Risk Prediction Models for Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Surgery, and Association with Fast-Track Failure".  ESICM LIVES 2014 27th Annual Congress ed. by European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. 1 pgs. Barcelona, Spain, 2014.09
   
   
2. MU, Jinglan; LEE Anna; CHIU Chun Hung; LEUNG Pui Nga Patricia and JOYNT Gavin Matthew.  "Performance of Katznelson's Model for Predicting ICU Delibrium after Cardiac Surgery: A Pilot Study".  Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaesthesiology 2013 Hong Kong ed. by The Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists & The Society of Anaesthetists of Hong Kong. p.43. Hong Kong SAR, 2013.11.16
   
   
3. MU, Jinglan; LEE Anna and JOYNT Gavin Matthew.  "Pharmacological Agents for The Prevention of Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review".  Paper presented in the The 38th Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care and the 19th Annual Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Conference, 1 pgs. Hobart, Australia, 2013.10.17