ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

Sep 15th, 2021 - Dexmedetomidine promotes normal sleep architecture; the drug also improves analgesia. We therefore tested the hypothesis that supplementing intravenous analgesia with dexmedetomidine reduces delirium in older patients recovering from orthopedic su...

Sep 14th, 2021 - Postoperative delirium (PD), as an acute brain failure, is widely reported as a very common postoperative complication, and it is closely associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Recently, malnutrition is reported as one of the risk fact...

Sep 14th, 2021 - It is unclear whether intraoperative arterial hypotension is associated with postoperative delirium. We hypothesized that intraoperative hypotension within a range frequently observed in clinical practice is associated with increased odds of delir...

Sep 14th, 2021 - Older hip fracture patients are at high risk of delirium during acute hospital care. Pre-fracture dementia is known to increase the risk of in-hospital delirium. Data on the development of new cognitive disorders in patients with delirium are scar...

Sep 12th, 2021 - The quagmire of postoperative delirium: does dose matter?|2021|Gaskell A,Sleigh J,|

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,

Sep 7th, 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...

Jul 10th, 2018 - To describe novel guideline development strategies created and implemented as part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 2018 clinical practice guidelines for pain, agitation (sedation), delirium, immobility (rehabilitation/mobility), and sle...

Sep 5th, 2021 - Preoperative anxiety and stress are risk factors for postoperative delirium (PD), postoperative cognitive decline (POCD), morbidity, and mortality. The primary objective of this study is to reduce the preoperative stress response through the combi...

Aug 30th, 2021 - Study design: Multicentre Retrospective Observational Cohort Study with two-arm COVID-19 sub-study (same design)

Aug 13th, 2021 - The project "QV-Delirium" is based on the decision of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) from 2017. The aim is to improve inpatient care for older patients who are undergoing inpatient surgery and thus to specifically reduce the postoperative risk...

Aug 12th, 2021 - The incidence of fragility hip fractures in elderly patients is increasing steadily in the United States and worldwide, and the mortality, morbidity and economic impact of this injury is staggering. The injury itself can result in severe pain, bot...

Jul 28th, 2021 - Design: Retrospective postauthorization study. Registry study. Setting: COVID Unit, "Perpetuo Socorro" Hospital of Albacete (Spain). Participants: Adults older than 70 years hospitalized for COVID-19 disease between 09/03/2020 and 20/04/2020. All ...

Jun 18th, 2021 - The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to teclistamab for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to Janssen, the developer of the bispecific antibody.1 The designation was based on data from...

Jun 14th, 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 21st, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Hospital-level care provided at home to medically unwell seniors who had received a comprehensive geriatric assessment did not lead to worse outcomes at six months compared with hospitalization, a UK study finds. In the trial, m...

Mar 29th, 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 25th, 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...