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Attitudes Towards Remote Monitoring for Falls Prevention Among Staff, Patients, Residents and Families in Hospital and Aged Care: Scoping Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine the reasons for and methods of using remote video monitoring to prevent falls across hospital and residential aged care, and explore how staff, patients, residents and families perceive its use and benefits. Design Scoping Review.
Kelly Stephen, Dai Pu, Jennifer Weller‐Newton, Ravi Manohar, Terry P. Haines   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guideline for Medication Management of Distressing Symptoms in Older Patients Receiving End‐of‐Life Palliative Care

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Older patients receiving end‐of‐life palliative care often present with multiple geriatric syndromes, frailty, and comorbid symptom burden, resulting in a high risk of medication‐related harm. This guideline focuses on pharmacological management of distressing symptoms in older patients receiving end‐of‐life or hospice‐oriented palliative care,
Daiping Li, Yanwu Yang, Yan Zhang, Jirong Yue, Birong Dong, Meiling Ge, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital of Sichuan University   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alcohol Withdrawal Mimicking Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. [PDF]

, 2019
Long-standing, heavy alcohol use can lead to alcohol dependence, which predisposes to alcohol withdrawal if alcohol consumption is suddenly decreased or stopped.
Mohammad, Tayyaba, Farooq, Amna, Mohammad, Qasim, Farooq, Hafsa, MD   +3 more
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Use of propofol as adjuvant therapy in refractory delirium tremens

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2010
Delirium tremens is recognized as a potentially fatal and debilitating complication of alcohol withdrawal. Use of sedatives, particularly benzodiazepines, is the cornerstone of therapy for delirium tremens.
Rajiv Mahajan, Rakendra Singh, Pir Dutt Bansal, Ranju Bala   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Recorded Music on Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults After Hip Fracture Surgery (IPOD): A Quasi‐Experimental Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
Timeline and task allocation for data collection in the control group (A); and intervention group (B). ABSTRACT Background Hip fractures often lead to postoperative delirium in older adults, significantly impacting recovery, hospitalization, and nursing workload.
M. E. Jungerling, B. L. van Leeuwen, H. van der Wal‐Huisman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk assessment of moderate to severe alcohol withdrawal--predictors for seizures and delirium tremens in the course of withdrawal. [PDF]

, 2011
To develop a prediction model for withdrawal seizures (WS) and delirium tremens (DT) during moderate to severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) in a large cohort of inpatients treated for AWS (n = 827).Re-analysis of a cohort study population treated ...
Eyer, F;Schuster, T;Felgenhauer, N;Pfab, R;Strubel, T;Saugel, B;Zilker, T
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Delirium Tremens in the Older Adult [PDF]

, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Caring for patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal syndrome can be challenging. Patients 65 and older are at increased risk for alcohol withdrawal syndrome related complications. The higher prevalence of co-morbidities, including cognitive
Olson, DaiWai M., Mulkey, Malissa A, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, CNRN   +1 more
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Multidimensional frailty and sleep quality in late adulthood: A UK biobank examination

Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary Frailty and sleep disturbances are two major concerns in late adulthood, that not only profoundly threaten health and wellbeing at the individual level but place enormous demands on our healthcare systems. Given that both constructs represent dynamic states that are preventable and reversible, understanding the potential pathways to and effects
Sarah P. Coundouris, Julie D. Henry, Lena K. L. Oestreich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voices from the minority: Understanding the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives The aim of this research was to understand the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims, with hopes for practitioners to better understand how to support this population. Design Qualitative methodology was used, utilising semi‐structured interviews. Braun and Clarke's (Thematic analysis: A practical guide, Sage Publications
Mahdiyah Datoo, Sanaa Kadir
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2019
Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite ...
Paritosh Kafle MBBS, Amrendra Kumar Mandal MBBS, Binav Shrestha MBBS, Bikash Bhattrai MBBS, Manjul Bhandari MBBS, Shambhu Bhagat MBBS, Bijoy Shankar Kar MBBS, Dikshya Sharma MBBS, Vijay Gayam MD   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source