“…However, elderly patients predispose to develop delirium after CABG (Deiner & Silverstein, ; Kobayashi et al, ; Loponen et al, ; Otomo, Maekawa, Goto, Baba, & Yoshitake, ; Smulter, Lingehall, Gustafson, Olofsson, & Engstrom, ). The incidence of postoperative delirium (POD) after CABG is 6% to 15% (Loponen et al, ; Yilmaz et al, ; W. Y. Zhang et al, ) in general and 46% to 73% (Khadka, McAlinden, & Pesudovs, ; Smith & Dimsdale, ) among patients aged 60 or older.…”