Delirium: What It Is, Symptoms, Treatment & Types - Cleveland Clinic
Delirium is a fast-developing type of confusion that affects your ability to focus your attention and awareness. It happens when there’s widespread disruption in brain activity, usually because of a combination of factors.
Delirium - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2022年10月14日 · Delirium is a serious change in mental abilities. It results in confused thinking and a lack of awareness of someone's surroundings. The disorder usually comes on fast — within hours or a few days. Delirium can often be traced to one or more factors. Factors may include a severe or long illness or an imbalance in the body, such as low sodium.
Delirium - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2022年11月19日 · Delirium is a clinical syndrome that usually develops in the elderly. It is characterized by an alteration of attention, consciousness, and cognition, with a reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention. It develops over a short period and fluctuates during the day.
Delirium: Types, Causes, and Treatment - Healthline
2022年9月7日 · Delirium is an abrupt change in the brain that causes mental confusion. Symptoms include unclear speaking or thinking, drowsiness, short-term memory loss, and more.
Delirium - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Delirium is an altered state of consciousness, characterized by episodes of confusion, that can develop over hours or days. “Delirium is a syndrome, not a disease,” Oh clarifies, noting that it affects people of all ages, but especially older adults who are acutely ill.
Delirium - American Journal of Psychiatry
2019年10月1日 · Delirium is a syndrome of acute brain failure that is the direct pathophysiologic consequence of an underlying medical condition or toxic exposure. According to DSM-5 (1), it is characterized by the acute onset of deficits in attention, awareness, and cognition that fluctuate in severity over time.
Phenotypes and subphenotypes of delirium: a review of current ...
2021年9月15日 · Delirium is a clinical syndrome occurring in heterogeneous patient populations. It affects 45–87% of critical care patients and is often associated with adverse outcomes including acquired dementia, institutionalisation, and death.
Delirium and acute confusional states: Prevention, treatment ... - UpToDate
2024年5月28日 · Delirium is an acute confusional state characterized by an alteration of consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention. This results in a cognitive or perceptual disturbance that is not better accounted for by …
Delirium - Delirium - Merck Manual Professional Edition
Delirium is an acute, transient, usually reversible, fluctuating disturbance in attention, cognition, and consciousness level. Causes include almost any disorder or drug. Diagnosis is clinical, with laboratory and usually imaging tests to identify the cause. Treatment is correction of the cause and supportive measures.
Delirium - Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2020年11月12日 · Delirium is a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by the acute onset of deficits in attention and other aspects of cognition. Patients often have altered arousal,...