For many years, the biological roots of delirium, a severe and common form of acute brain failure, have been poorly understood. However, in a recent study, researchers at the University of Edinburgh ...

Postoperative delirium (POD) is a frequent complication after surgery, especially in elderly patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery with free flap reconstruction. This study aimed to assess ...

Palliative Care (Pain Therapy, Rehabilitation), Fondazione IRCCS, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy Delirium is a frequent complication in oncology. Its definition as a disorder of consciousness ...

Palliative Care (Pain Therapy, Rehabilitation), Fondazione IRCCS, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy Delirium is a frequent complication in oncology. Its definition as a disorder of consciousness ...

Delirium is a type of confusion that develops suddenly—over the course of hours or days—and most commonly affects older adults who are hospitalized or in a long-term care facility. “We refer to ...

Having to stay in a hospital or long-term care facility is stressful. Not only is a patient sick or injured, but they are in an unfamiliar environment away from their families and may not know the ...

The characteristics of the 43 hospitalized older patients with cancer who had delirium are presented in Table 2. The patients had a mean age of 74.6 years. Patients were almost evenly divided by sex ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

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Treatment with a combination of haloperidol and lorazepam reduced symptoms of agitated delirium, a common end-of-life condition for patients with advanced cancers, compared with haloperidol alone, ...

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Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law ...