ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

Jun 14th, 2021 - Article Review: One-year medicare costs associated with delirium in older patients undergoing major elective surgery by Gou, R., Hshieh, T., Marcantonio, E., et al. JAMA 2021.|2021|Rich K,|

Jun 14th, 2021 - Our study aimed to determine 1) the association between time spent in the emergency department (ED) hallway and the development of delirium and 2) the hospital location of delirium development. This single-center, retrospective chart review includ...

Jun 13th, 2021 - Mental health and wellbeing continue to gain more attention as they are inextricably associated with clinical outcomes, particularly quality of life. Many medical ailments and major surgeries affect patients' mental health, including depression an...

Jun 11th, 2021 - While tetanus is now a rare disease in the UK, it remains an important differential diagnosis for trismus and muscle spasms. Even more so in older adults, as this population is less likely to have received full vaccination. Hence, the highest inci...

Jun 10th, 2021 - Lithium is frequently used in the treatment of bipolar disorders and is known to induce ECG alterations. This case study describes various patterns of lithium-induced ECG modifications in a patient with acute-on-chronic lithium intoxication. Clini...

Jan 8th, 2021 - Delirium and postoperative neurocognitive disorder are the commonest perioperative complications in patients more than 65 yr of age. However, data suggest that we often fail to screen patients for preoperative cognitive impairment, to warn patient...

May 5th, 2019 - Acute changes in mental status represent a broad collection of symptoms used to describe disorders in mentation and level of arousal, including the more narrowly defined diagnoses of delirium and psychosis. A wide range of precipitating factors ma...

Jan 21st, 2019 - The Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS), which may occur with or without delirium, is a frequent consequence of sudden alcohol cessation in patients with moderate to severe Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS). Withdrawal as a result of habituation to ...

Sep 30th, 2018 - Delirium in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.|2018|Bush SH,Lawlor PG,Ryan K,Centeno C,Lucchesi M,|diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,standards,diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,standards,

Sep 6th, 2018 - The chronic use of alcohol can lead to the onset of an alcohol use disorder (AUD). About 50% of subjects with an AUD may develop alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) when they reduce or discontinue their alcohol consumption and, in 3-5% of them, conv...

Jun 14th, 2021 - Article Review: One-year medicare costs associated with delirium in older patients undergoing major elective surgery by Gou, R., Hshieh, T., Marcantonio, E., et al. JAMA 2021.|2021|Rich K,|

Jun 14th, 2021 - Our study aimed to determine 1) the association between time spent in the emergency department (ED) hallway and the development of delirium and 2) the hospital location of delirium development. This single-center, retrospective chart review includ...

Jun 13th, 2021 - Current evidence does not support use of "excited delirium" or "excited delirium syndrome" as a medical diagnosis, the American Medical Association (AMA) said today, and the term should not be used unless clear diagnostic criteria are validated. T...

Jun 13th, 2021 - Mental health and wellbeing continue to gain more attention as they are inextricably associated with clinical outcomes, particularly quality of life. Many medical ailments and major surgeries affect patients' mental health, including depression an...

Jun 11th, 2021 - While tetanus is now a rare disease in the UK, it remains an important differential diagnosis for trismus and muscle spasms. Even more so in older adults, as this population is less likely to have received full vaccination. Hence, the highest inci...

Jun 13th, 2021 - Current evidence does not support use of "excited delirium" or "excited delirium syndrome" as a medical diagnosis, the American Medical Association (AMA) said today, and the term should not be used unless clear diagnostic criteria are validated. T...

Apr 5th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Despite concerns early in the pandemic that dementia may increase the risk for death in this patient population, new research shows it is not an i...

Mar 28th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Administration of intranasal insulin before gastrointestinal surgery helps protect against postoperative delirium in elderly patients, according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in China. Mounting evidence sug...

Mar 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Toxic metabolic encephalopathy (TME) is common and often lethal in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, new research shows. "A lot of the delirium...

Mar 15th, 2021 - William H. Hung, MD, MPH Older adults with COVID-19 are at increased risk for poor outcomes, including hospitalization, respiratory failure, and in-hospital death. Because this is a novel illness, we are still discerning whether factors known to p...