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Delirium

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2017
Delirium is a common, often underdiagnosed, geriatric syndrome characterized by an acute change in attention and consciousness. As a neuropsychiatric disorder with an underlying organic cause, delirium has been considered a diagnosis reserved for the hospital setting.
Belinda, Setters, Laurence M, Solberg
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Delirium

Medical Clinics of North America, 2022
Delirium is an acute and fluctuating disorder characterized by a disturbance in attention and cognition. Delirium is underdiagnosed by clinicians, but there are excellent diagnostic tools using history and physical examination that can assist clinicians in making the diagnosis in multiple settings (ie, CAM, CAM-ICU, 3D-CAM, bCAM, 4AT, and UB-CAM ...
Craig R, Keenan, Sharad, Jain
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Delirium

Nursing, 2011
This issue provides a clinical overview of delirium focusing on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, practice improvement, and patient information. Readers can complete the accompanying CME quiz for 1.5 credits. Only ACP members and individual subscribers can access the electronic features of In the Clinic. Non-subscribers who wish to access this issue of
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Delirium diagnostic tool-provisional (DDT-Pro) scores in delirium, subsyndromal delirium and no delirium

General Hospital Psychiatry, 2020
To evaluate whether the Delirium Diagnostic Tool-Provisional (DDT-Pro), a 0-9 point scale with three items each representing symptoms from delirium's three core domains, differentiates subsyndromal delirium (SSD) from delirium and no delirium.We applied cluster analyses of DDT-Pro scores from 200 consecutive inpatients using three reference standards ...
Carolina López   +10 more
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Delirium in the Elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2018
Delirium is defined as an acute disturbance in attention and cognition, with significant associated morbidity and mortality. This article discusses the basic epidemiology of delirium and approaches to diagnosing, assessing, and working up patients for delirium.
Sharon K. Inouye   +2 more
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Delirium

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2005
Delirium is the most common neurobehavioural problem encountered in general hospitals, yet is notoriously under-recognized. It is characterized by a disturbance of consciousness and change in cognition that cannot be accounted for by a prior history of dementia. This article reviews the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of delirium.
Sarah, Bigham, Hannah R, Cock
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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

Current Drug Targets, 2005
Delirium is a global impairment of upper brain functions caused by an organic substrate. It is frequently observed in the postoperative period, particularly in elderly people. Vascular and orthopedic surgery and long-duration surgery are associated with a higher incidence of postoperative delirium.
F. Cavaliere   +3 more
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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 ...
Torgeir Bruun Wyller   +3 more
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The Immunology of Delirium

Neuroimmunomodulation, 2014
Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by acute-onset global cognitive deficits, perceptual and behavioural disturbances affecting mainly elderly subjects with underlying medical or surgical conditions. The pathophysiology of delirium is complex and inflammation is a relevant precipitant factor of this syndrome, although it ...
Cerejeira J   +2 more
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