Researchers found postoperative delirium was strongly associated with long-term cognitive decline and the effect was not explained by rehospitalizations, highlighting the long-term impact of delirium ...

She's also been diagnosed with early signs of dementia.

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 ...

Long-term cognitive decline is associated with postoperative delirium, and this association is not mediated by rehospitalization.

Older adults who developed delirium after surgery had more rehospitalizations and experienced lasting decline in cognition. Rehospitalizations, an indicator of illness and frailty, were linked to ...

Lorazepam and other benzodiazepines are typically avoided when managing end-of-life agitated delirium in patients with cancer because these drugs can precipitate, even worsen, delirium. But a new ...

Delirium is a sudden decline in a person’s usual mental function. It occurs when signals in the brain aren’t sending and receiving properly, causing confusion in thinking and altered behaviour or ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Delirium is a sudden state of severe mental confusion that can occur as a result of illness, surgery or the use of some medications. This clinical syndrome can be difficult to define precisely, but it ...

In her job as a physician at the Boston Medical Center, Sondra Crosby treated some of the first people in her region to get COVID. So when she began feeling sick in April 2020, Crosby wasn’t surprised ...

In videos that show George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, an officer holding down the Black man’s ankles says, “I just worry about excited delirium or whatever.” Another officer ...