ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

May 24th, 2022 - Delirium may be divided into multiple subtypes with different pathological factors. This study aimed to focus on the delirium subtype in which delusions are conspicuous and explore its prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors. The su...

May 23rd, 2022 - Older patients have a higher risk for complications after rectal cancer surgery. Although screening for geriatric impairments may improve risk prediction in this group, it has not been studied previously. We retrospectively investigated patients ≥...

May 22nd, 2022 - Little is known about the economic value of clinical interventions for delirium. This review aims to synthesise and appraise available economic evidence, including resource use, costs, and cost-effectiveness of interventions for reducing, preventi...

May 21st, 2022 - Linking Perioperative Medications and Delirium.|2022|Nathan N,|

May 20th, 2022 - Chronic limb threatening ischemia is the final stage of peripheral arterial disease. Current treatment is based on revascularization to preserve the leg. In the older, hospitalized chronic limb threatening ischemia patient, delirium is a frequent ...

Feb 5th, 2022 - A guideline that both evaluates current practice and provides recommendations to address sedation, pain, and delirium management with regard for neuromuscular blockade and withdrawal is not currently available. To develop comprehensive clinical pr...

Dec 16th, 2021 - The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management RELEASE DATE: May 2020 PRIOR VERSION: 2004 American Society of Addiction Medicine guideline on management of alcohol withdrawal delirium DEVELOPER: American Society of Addiction...

Jan 9th, 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 6th, 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...

Oct 1st, 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,

May 17th, 2022 - Sleep is a periodic, reversible state of reduced consciousness, and response to external stimuli. A total sleep duration of normal human sleep is approximately 7-8 hours per night. Sleep deprivation is common in critical patients and it can cause ...

May 13th, 2022 - This is a multi-site, two-arm, single-blinded randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of the EGS Delirium Recovery Model to improve the cognitive, physical and psychological recovery of older EGS delirium survivors. At or nea...

May 11th, 2022 - BACKGROUND. Although widely used, the efficacy and safety of haloperidol for delirium in critically ill adults remain unclear. A randomised controlled trial is warranted to study the effect of haloperidol on delirium or coma, long-term outcomes, s...

May 11th, 2022 - The investigators studied the effects of intranasal dexmedetomidine compared with oral midazolam with different doses for premedication in children. One hundred and twenty children aged between 2 and 12 years were randomly allocated to one of four...

May 10th, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To determine the change of satisfaction with quality of care after an experience on the palliative care unit (PCU) for both patients and caregivers, as determined by the global rating survey. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To deter...

May 20th, 2022 - Researchers in China have lost a 2019 paper on sedation in people undergoing cardiac surgery after readers complained that the authors had failed to properly register the trial. The paper, "Effect of Perioperative Administration of Dexmedetomidine...

May 2nd, 2022 - The combination of nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) produced an encouraging overall response rate (ORR) with manageable safety in patients with advanced urothelial cancer who were refractory to platinum-based chemotherapy or ...

Apr 6th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Early mobilization of critically ill kids, which can help prevent the sequelae of immobility during stays in pediatric intensive-care units (PICUs), appears to be safe, a new study suggests. "Critically ill children are...

Mar 29th, 2022 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Older adults taking psychotropic medication before contracting COVID-19 are at increased risk dementia in the year following the illness, new rese...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Delirious mania is a diagnostic term used in variety of settings, including the emergency department and inpatient psychiatry, but it does not have formal criteria established in the DSM-5. Delirious mania was first described in the 1800s and was.