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

In patients with chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) requiring burr hole craniotomy, operation under local anesthesia (LA) was ...

An estimated 3,100 people in Wolverhampton have been diagnosed with dementia.

In a recent study published in BMJ, researchers explored the relationship between delirium and new-onset dementia among older adults with no dementia diagnosis at baseline. Study: Delirium and ...

Everyone forgets where they put their keys or if they closed the garage door, but when do forgetfulness and confusion become a bigger problem, and how can we detect it? A sudden onset of confusion ...

People over age 65 who spend long hours in an Emergency Room are at greater risk of delirium. That risk may rise as more ...

Delirium is a strong risk factor for dementia and death among older people, finds the largest study of its kind published by The BMJ today. The findings show that, among hospital patients with at ...

Two dynamic analytics models developed at Johns Hopkins University predicted delirium-prone patients when tested on two datasets drawn from 100,000 stays at a Boston hospital's intensive care unit, ...

Benzodiazepines like lorazepam can precipitate or worsen delirium, and are often avoided for patients with end-of-life delirium. Among cancer patients in a palliative care setting, those who received ...

Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...