Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome, ... The topics covered include epidemiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, treatment, prevention and outcome.

Dementia, depression, and acute psychiatric syndromes should all be considered in the differential diagnoses for delirium; these syndromes often co-occur, and patients may have more than one. 7 ...

The term excited delirium is “scientifically meaningless,” the study says, and should be replaced with an approach that prioritizes quick treatment of the underlying causes of behavior that ...

Although he agreed that delirium should be included in the differential diagnosis of COVID-19, how frequently it is the only symptom at presentation would need to be determined in a considerably ...

Differential Associations Between Delirium and Mortality According to Delirium Subtype and Age. Psychosomatic Medicine , 2015; 1 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000239 Cite This Page : ...

While excited delirium is used to explain a significant number of deaths occurring in police custody, the term has not been recognized as a genuine mental health condition by the American Medical ...

Delirium in hospitalized patients might be linked to common antibiotics more often than once believed, according to new research.. Delirium -- mental confusion that may be paired with ...