A Mission Trip to Vietnam (EP Video)

Melatonin is a potent scavenger of free radicals and an antioxidant. We studied the relationship between the protective effect of melatonin against ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) during cardiopulmonary bypass, the plasma level of melatonin, and the time of surgery.

These studies have shown that drugs taken perioperatively by cardiac surgery patients need to be considered in delirium risk management strategies.