Older adults who develop delirium during a hospital admission face a substantially higher risk of dementia in later years, ...

A brief and simple method to help hospital care providers recognize delirium in elderly patients has been developed by researchers. Delirium is a state of confusion that develops suddenly, often ...

Older adults who experienced delirium during a hospital admission experienced a substantially increased risk of developing dementia in later years, according to a March study published in The Lancet ...

Multimodal strategies can prevent delirium after cardiovascular procedures, emphasizing risk factors and screening.

A novel easy-to-administer tool to score and track delirium severity in the ICU has been developed and validated, enabling clinicians to make better decisions about the brain health of ICU patients.

January 25, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Increased frequency of assessment for delirium throughout the day increases the rate of its detection among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Language barriers can lead to improper care of Latino patients in the ICU or contribute to delirium. The Spanish ...

A UAB study validates a rigorous expert panel method as a reliable gold standard for measuring delirium severity in patients ...

Delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, is widespread in critically ill patients in lower resourced hospitals, and the duration of delirium predicted both mortality and disability at six months ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco, PhD, an associate professor of surgery and population health at New York University ...