ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - To explore patient experiences, understanding and perceptions of analgesia following major lower limb amputation. Qualitative interview study, conducted as part of a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Participants were recruited from two gen...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - Studies have shown the benefit of intensive care unit (ICU) bundled protocols; however, they are primarily derived from medical patients. We hypothesized that patients and their medication profiles are different between critically ill medical, sur...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - This randomized clinical trial will test the effectiveness of a nonpharmacologic intervention to prevent delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU), which affects as many as 80% of critically ill, mechanically ventilated adults.. The Family Automat...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Disorders of consciousness are powerful predictors of outcomes including mortality among critically ill patients. Encephalopathy, delirium, and coma are disorders of consciousness frequently encountered by critical care nurses but often classified...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - This study will compare the incidence of POD after elective non cardiac surgery conducted under general anesthesia before and after the implementation of BIS monitoring in our University Hospital. The POD will be evaluated with the CAM and Nu-DESC...

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...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - This randomized clinical trial will test the effectiveness of a nonpharmacologic intervention to prevent delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU), which affects as many as 80% of critically ill, mechanically ventilated adults.. The Family Automat...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - This study will compare the incidence of POD after elective non cardiac surgery conducted under general anesthesia before and after the implementation of BIS monitoring in our University Hospital. The POD will be evaluated with the CAM and Nu-DESC...

Nov 29th, 2021 - Currently, pneumonia diagnosis is primarily based on clinical symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, fever and sputum production, combined with X-ray of the lungs, relevant blood tests and microbiological analysis of sputum sampl...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - Postoperative delirium (POD), an acute, reversible disturbance in brain function characterized by fluctuating levels of consciousness, attention and cognition is a common postoperative complication in older surgical patients. POD is associated wit...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - After a pilot study regarding opioid use for patient after THR, the sample size for either treatment or control arm is calculated to be 35 patients per group to achieve adequate power to detect such a difference. Sealed opaque envelopes with alloc...

Nov 17th, 2021 - A regimen of daily, low-dose aspirin failed to produce a significant reduction in the incidence of dementia or cognitive impairment in ASCEND, a randomized, multicenter trial with more than 15,000 people with diabetes followed for an average of mo...

Nov 16th, 2021 - A regimen of daily, low-dose aspirin failed to produce a significant reduction in the incidence of dementia or cognitive impairment in ASCEND, a randomized, multicenter trial with more than 15,000 people with diabetes followed for an average of mo.

Oct 13th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. MIAMI (AP) — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employe...

Oct 12th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A test of 1,600 hip-fracture surgery patients has found that the type of anesthesia - spinal or general - makes little difference in the result. In the primary outcome that combined death and an inability to walk three ...

Oct 8th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery under general anesthesia, intraoperative mean arterial pressure (MAP) of less than 55 mm Hg is associated with increased risk of postoperative delirium within 30 days of surger...