The "ADEPT" tool for delirium and agitation provides care guidelines for emergency department clinicians. A recently developed tool for managing delirium and agitation in emergency room patients over ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 patients treated in intensive care units are at increased risk for delirium, and a bedside ...

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 ...

New research by an Executive PhD Research student at the Business School (formerly Cass) outlines how elderly patients with neurological conditions are significantly more likely to develop delirium ...

Delirium is a serious change in brain function that affects up to 64 percent of older medical patients and up to 50 percent of older surgical patients. It can manifest as sudden confusion, agitation, ...

Delirium is a sudden onset of acute confusion in which those affected are disoriented, have impaired attention, and experience altered perception -often accompanied by hallucinations or sleep ...

Academic Hybrid Cancer Centers: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Tao et al 10 conducted a retrospective analysis on critically ill, nonterminal patients with cancer admitted to a mixed medical-surgical ...

A new study that looked at possible improvements in post-acute care quality and outcomes following the 2014 Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act found that delirium ...

The aging population and the emergence of age-related mental health problems continue to challenge modern healthcare systems. Given the culture of the hospital setting, how can a patient-centered ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently updated its guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and management of delirium in people aged 18 and over who are in long-term ...