ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

May 17th, 2022 - Perioperative cerebral oxygen saturation (ScO2) has been reported to associate with postoperative delirium (POD) which is a common postoperative complication, however, the results were inconclusive. Therefore, we aimed to conduct an up-to-date rev...

May 17th, 2022 - Predicting postoperative complications has the potential to inform shared decisions regarding the appropriateness of surgical procedures, targeted risk-reduction strategies, and postoperative resource use. Realizing these advantages requires that ...

May 17th, 2022 - Covid-19 may have a heterogeneous onset, especially in older age. However, whether and how Covid-19 signs and symptoms may present and aggregate together according to sociodemographic and health factors is unclear, as well as their prognostic valu...

May 17th, 2022 - There is no widely used prognostic model for delirium in patients with advanced cancer. The present study aimed to develop a decision tree prediction model for a short-term outcome. This is a secondary analysis of a multicenter and prospective obs...

May 17th, 2022 - Systemic lidocaine may reduce pain intensity and accelerate postoperative recovery. However, the efficacy of systemic lidocaine in cognitive function has not been established. This study protocol is designed to clarify the effectiveness of lidocai...

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 13th, 2022 - Automated pupillometry is an easy-to-use device that allows for accurate objective assessment of the photomotor reflex. AP it allows the acquisition of dynamic parameters in addition to pupillary diameter, such as quantitative measurement of pupil...

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 - Postoperative delirium in older people may be contributed to by intrinsic brain vulnerability such as pre-existing dementia. Some cognitively intact older people also experience postoperative delirium and in these patients some go on to develop la...

May 10th, 2022 - Scientific background and rational of the project Dyspnea, defined as "suffocation or not getting enough air" is the most common (50% of patients) and debilitating symptom experienced by patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Dy...

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...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - From Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Objective: To ascertain the extent of nasogastric tube (NGT) dislodgment in COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patients after the introduction of NGT bridle kits.

Nov 23rd, 2021 - From the Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (Drs. Ching, Darwish, Li, Wong, Simpson, and Funk), the Department of Anesthesia, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (Keith Siegel), and the Department of Psy.