Principal Investigator DECIDE and Associate investigator TRICS IV

I am the Principal Investigator for POW Hospital for the DECIDE study.

DECIDE study: Dexmedetomidine in Cardiac surgical Intraoperative Drug Evaluation

The DECIDE study is a large (n=1,100) four year, triple blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial evaluating whether dexmedetomidine (DEX) improves:

  • Days alive and free of delirium and coma at 14 days
  • Days alive and at home at 30 days
  • 1-year cognitive outcomes after cardiac surgery


Principal investigator: Professor Robert Sanders, University of Sydney

I co-ordinate and manage the DECIDE trial on Randwick Clinical Campus