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Delirium

Critical Care Medicine, 2012
Comment on: The relationship between delirium duration, white matter integrity, and cognitive impairment in intensive care unit survivors as determined by diffusion tensor imaging: the VISIONS prospective cohort magnetic resonance imaging study*. [Crit Care Med. 2012]
LATRONICO, Nicola   +3 more
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Delirium

Archives of Family Medicine, 1995
This article identifies the importance of delirium in general medical practice. Recent revisions in the diagnostic criteria for delirium are discussed, and the epidemiology of delirium is summarized, including the incidence and prevalence, risk factors, origins, course, and outcomes.
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Postoperative delirium

La Presse Médicale, 2018
Delirium in the perioperative period is a wide-reaching problem that directly affects important clinical outcomes. It is essential that anesthesiologists understand how to define and diagnose delirium, identify patients at high risk for developing delirium, recognize precipitating factors to appropriately adjust care plans, and manage patients who ...
Kimberly F, Rengel   +2 more
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The Misdiagnosis of Delirium

Psychosomatics, 1997
The authors examined the ability of nonpsychiatric house staff to accurately diagnose delirium at the time of consultation. Of 221 consultations over a 5-year period, 46% were misdiagnosed by the house staff. House staff on the general medicine wards and the nonintensive care unit environment did significantly better than those on the surgical wards ...
S C, Armstrong   +2 more
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Delirium and sedation

Critical Care Clinics, 2004
Critically ill patients nearing the end of life frequently present with needs for aggressive sedation and analgesia. Optimizing patient comfort while permitting effective communication are challenging goals in this patient population. This article discusses delirium and sedation as it applies to dying patients, and provides recommendations for ...
John P, Kress, Jesse B, Hall
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Antipsychotics for delirium

2006
Delirium occurs in up to 30% of hospitalised patients and is associated with prolonged hospital stay and increased morbidity and mortality. Recently published reports have suggested that the standard drug for delirium, haloperidol, a typical antipsychotic that may cause adverse extrapyramidal symptoms among patients, may be replaced by atypical ...
E, Lonergan   +3 more
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Neurochemistry and Delirium

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 1999
Acute confusional state or delirium is one of the most common organic brain syndromes especially in the elderly. It develops suddenly, within hours or days, and often during a period of hospitalization. In this paper we review the results of our studies on the neurochemistry of delirium.
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Pregnancy as delirium

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2002
(2002). Pregnancy as delirium. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 145-148.
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Pathophysiology of Delirium

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 1998
Hypotheses about the pathophysiology of delirium are speculative and largely based on animal research. According to the neurotransmitter hypothesis, decreased oxidative metabolism in the brain causes cerebral dysfunction due to abnormalities of various neurotransmitter systems.
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Delirium

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Robyn P, Thom   +3 more
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