From prayer times to family vigils, everyday realities can alter how delirium presents — and how clinicians should respond.

ST. LOUIS -- The best way to treat hospitalized elderly patients who become delirious defies conventional wisdom and common practice, according to new research from Saint Louis University published in ...

It's an all-too-familiar situation: an elderly patient falls and fractures his hip. He is admitted to the hospital and undergoes surgery. During the recovery period, he becomes extremely confused and ...

In the first study of its kind, Fred Hutchinson researchers found that half of patients undergoing conventional stem-cell transplantation exhibit signs of delirium, but the symptoms can be subtle and ...

Millions of Americans are given antipsychotic medications to treat delirium in the hospital every year - but the drugs don't work, new research reveals. Delirium is a stater of confusion and mental ...

Data for this secondary analysis were collected in 3 studies of acute confusion in hospitalized older adults. [30] The first study identified patterns of delirium development in a sample of ...

The patient was an older man, living at a nursing facility. He’d originally been admitted to the hospital for surgery to treat a urinary tract infection. But now, lying in his bed at the hospital ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nurse Jan Smith leans in to adjust electrodes wired to her patient’s scalp. Thomas McCarty suddenly whirls in his bed, his arms rising as if he’s trying to ...

A new study indicates that delirium is relatively frequent and underdiagnosed by physicians in patients with advanced cancer visiting the emergency department. Delirium was similarly common among ...

Jenny Specis knew something was wrong with her uncle Themis when he asked her if she wanted an ice cream. Delirium is a brain syndrome common in elderly hospitalised patients Patients suffer confusion ...

Background: Postoperative delirium after elective surgery is frequent and potentially serious. We sought to determine whether the use of statin medications was associated with a higher risk of ...

Delirium is a very common problem among hospitalized elderly patients, Dr. Flaherty says. Between 15 and 20 percent of older patients are delirious when they are admitted and up to 30 percent become ...