Health
Antipsychotic drugs may not be effective against delirium
A recent review of the medical literature does not support the use of antipsychotic medications for preventing or treating delirium in hospitalized patients.
Mar 23, 2016
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Delirium
Psychology & Psychiatry
New tool helps detect delirium in hospital patients
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a two-minute assessment tool to help hospital staff predict a patient's risk of delirium, a change in mental cognition characterized by severe confusion and disorientation that ...
Aug 7, 2013
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Surgery
Postoperative delirium results in poor outcomes in older adults
Researchers from the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) at Hebrew SeniorLife confirm that delirium is a significant and independent contributing factor to poor postsurgical outcomes in older adults. ...
Sep 9, 2015
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Surgery
Preschool children who experience 'emergence delirium' post-surgery do not have long-term effects
Emergence delirium—a confused state during recovery from anesthesia that may include disorientation, hallucination, restlessness and purposeless hyperactivity—does not affect a child's behavior three months after surgery, ...
Oct 23, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Worries about dementia: How hospitalization affects the elderly
Older people often worry about dementia and while some risks are known, for example alcoholism or stroke, the effects of illness are less clear. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care ...
Dec 16, 2012
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Surgery
The price of delirium: New study finds nearly half of patients have delirium
A new study presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that 48 percent of hip fracture patients, age 65 and older, had delirium, or acute confusion, before, during ...
Mar 24, 2015
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Cardiology
Postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients associated with prolonged cognitive impairment
Older patients undergoing cardiac surgery often experience changes in cognitive function, such as memory problems or an inability to focus, in the days immediately following their operations. While these changes are usually ...
Jul 4, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Thesis: Depression and delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Anna Falk at the research group Thoracic Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, will defend her thesis "Depression and delirium in cardiac surgery patients" on May 26, 2023. Here main Supervisor is Malin Stenman.
May 17, 2023
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
New systematic review examines head imaging abnormalities in patients with acute delirium in the emergency department
Older adults who come to the Emergency Department (ED) with altered mental status (AMS), delirium, or confusion are more likely to have an acutely abnormal finding on computed tomography (CT) if they have a focal neurological ...
Jun 30, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Delirium in older patients after surgery may lead to long-term cognitive decline
Researchers from the Harvard Medical School - affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) have found increasing evidence that delirium in older surgical patients may be associated with long-term cognitive ...
Jul 14, 2016
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