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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 42, Issue 7)WASHINGTON -- Delirium due to underlying medical conditions was misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder in a significant proportion of patients who were admitted to an inpatient geriatric psychiatric unit, a...
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From:Journal of Anesthesia (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground A relationship between patients with a genetic predisposition to and those who develop postoperative delirium has not been yet determined. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 23, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedDelirium occurs in 85 to 90 per cent of patients with cancer in the last 24-48 hours of life. It is frightening and distressing for patients and families and is the one of the main reasons why the patient's care cannot...
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From:Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (Vol. 33, Issue 2)Byline: Sri. Charan, C. M.. Reddy Genital self mutilation is a rare and a severe form of self-injurious behavior usually described in psychotic disorders, with delusions and hallucinations. It has been ascribed to...
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From:Annals of African Medicine (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: F. Salawu, A. Danburam, P. Ogualili Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness, cognition and perception that occurs frequently in medically ill patients. Although it is associated with increased morbidity...
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From:Aging Health (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Benjamin Shapiro [[dagger]] 1 , James Randy Mervis 2 Keywords : assessment; course; delirium; dementia; diagnosis; epidemiology; pathophysiology; prevention; screening; treatment Delirium and...
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From:Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: A. Rudra, S. Chatterjee, J. Kirtania, S. Sengupta, G. Moitra, S. Sirohia, R. Wankhade, S. Banerjee Postoperative delirium (POD) is frequently under diagnosed and more often than not, under treated. It is the...
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From:The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update (Vol. 21, Issue 10)Case 1: Female, 53 years old Medications: Lithium (Eskalith), sodium valproate, sertraline (Zoloft), quetiapine (Seroquel), haloperidol (Haldol) Comment: A 53-year-old woman with bipolar disorder since age 16,...
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From:Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a preoperative, multidisciplinary intervention program for the prevention of acute postoperative delirium on the incidence and severity in patients who...
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From:Oncology (Vol. 31, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedDelirium is frequently encountered when caring for cancer patients, from initial diagnosis to the advanced stages of the disease; however, it is often missed. Oncologists need to be familiar with the various defining...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground In clinical practice, a dichotomous approach to delirium identification may no longer be relevant when existing delirium screening tools measure a range of scores. The objective of this study was to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Delirium is a prevalent condition in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) associated with worse outcomes. The principal aim of the present study was compare the agreement between two tools for...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Delirium is a frequently misdiagnosed and inadequately treated neuropsychiatric complication most commonly observed in terminally ill cancer patients. To our knowledge this is the first report describing...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1271)[X] [S] A 69-year-old woman, who was receiving paroxetine for major depressive disorder, developed delirium after commencing flecainide for atrial fibrillation. The woman's medical history was notable for atrial...
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From:MedSurg Nursing (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe amount of analgesia received by patients in pain who developed delirium was compared with patients who did not develop delirium. Findings revealed a significant difference between the two groups. Delirium, also...
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From:Southern Medical Journal (Vol. 97, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Delirium is one of the most common disorders in hospitalized patients. The authors present the case of an elderly male patient with postoperative cognitive decline that did not resolve with the conventional...
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From:The Journal of Critical Illness (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA recent report by Ely and colleagues (1) at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine indicates that the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) is a valid and reliable tool for the diagnosis...
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From:Journal of Gerontological Nursing (Vol. 47, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe current study examined the association of patient factors, patient/caregiver relationships, and living arrangements with caregiver burden due to delirium. The sample included a subset (N = 207) of hospitalized...
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From:The Journal of Critical Illness (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedEly EW, Margolin R, Francis J, et al, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn, and Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for...
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From:Reactions Weekly[S] A 68-year-old man with a 3-year history of Parkinson's disease, for which he was receiving levodopa, started receiving additional pramipexole [dosage not stated]. Shortly after treatment initiation, he developed...