ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

Mar 28th, 2023 - The AID-ICU trial was a randomised, blinded, placebo-controlled trial investigating effects of haloperidol versus placebo in acutely admitted, adult patients admitted in intensive care unit (ICU) with delirium. This pre-planned Bayesian analysis f...

Mar 27th, 2023 - To describe the association between preoperative sleep disruption and postoperative delirium. Prospective cohort study with six time points (3 nights pre-hospitalization and 3 nights post-surgery). The sample included 180 English-speaking patients...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Long-term outcomes of intensive care unit delirium.|2023|Nassar AP,Ely EW,Fiest KM,|

Mar 26th, 2023 - Although the number of elderly patients requiring lumbar fusion for lumbar degenerative disorders has increased over time, the postoperative outcomes of lumbar fusion in very elderly patients (> 85 years) remains unknown. This study aimed to evalu...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Patient-centred measures to capture symptoms and concerns have rarely been reported in severe COVID. We adapted and tested the measurement properties of the proxy version of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale-IPOS-COV for severe COVID us...

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,

Mar 15th, 2023 - Background: Physical restraint of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a common practice, with estimated prevalence of 50% of all ICU patients, with and without invasive ventilation support(1). The prevalence of physical restraint varies b...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Hospitalized persons with dementia (PWD) and or delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD) are particularly vulnerable to stress due to their decreased ability to interpret their environment and the invasive procedures required. The stress of the hos...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to investigate the postoperative recovery following hip and knee arthroplasty procedures depending on the use of either spinal anaesthesia (SA) or general anaesthesia (GA). The main questions are: Are ...

Mar 9th, 2023 - the investigators designed a prospective study after approval of our Institutional ethics committee (dossier no:212-2022) and planned to allocate 60 patients (2 groups; 1:1 allocation; n=30). This study is designed under the Declaration of Helsink...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a pre-ICU admission virtual reality ICU simulation on post-operative delirium in the elective cardiothoracic surgical population while in the intensive care unit.

Mar 20th, 2023 - Postoperative delirium in older adults was associated with 40% faster cognitive decline, data from a prospective cohort study showed. Among older adults who developed delirium after major elective surgery, cognitive decline over 72 months occurred...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Critical Care Network Nonrespiratory Critical Care Section Advocating for early mobility for patients in the ICU seems like a no-brainer. This is especially true for critically ill patients, in which weakness is more common and can result in worse.

Mar 6th, 2023 - Hospital patients discharged after severe SARS-CoV-2 infection followed one of three cognitive trajectories, longitudinal data showed. Of 946 severe COVID patients age 50 and older with no previous dementia or memory complaints, 69.0% had no cogni...

Mar 1st, 2023 - A visual hallucination is a visual percept experienced when awake that is not elicited by an external stimulus. Historically, hallucinations have been synonymous with psychiatric disease, most notably schizophrenia; however, over recent decades, h.

Feb 17th, 2023 - Older patients prescribed an atypical antipsychotic for hospitalization-related delirium more often stayed on it past the recommended duration than if prescribed a typical antipsychotic, researchers reported. Among nearly 6,000 patients 65 and old...