Delirium is associated with a five-fold increase in mortality in acute cardiac patients, according to research published today in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. Delirium was common ...

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 ...

Delirium is an acute state of confusion that often affects older adults following surgery or serious illness. Now a study confirms that inflammation -- an immune response that develops when the body ...

Anesthesiologist and other researchers from Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, New York Medical College, Valhalla and Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, ...

Although delirium is known to negatively affect critically ill patients, little data exist on delirium in critically ill patients with cancer. We analyzed 915 critically ill patients with cancer ...

Delirium is associated with a five-fold increase in mortality in acute cardiac patients, according to research. Delirium was common and affected over half of acute cardiac patients aged 85 years and ...

Older Canadian adults whose physicians prescribed first-generation antihistamines in the hospital were more likely to experience delirium, a cross-sectional study suggested. Aaron Drucker, MD ...

Long waits, overcrowding, and corridor care in emergency departments where staff are spread too thinly pose major risks to ...

Ev Weinstein, left, visits with Marvis Devereaux at Methodist Hospital. Weinstein, a volunteer with the HELP program, checks for signs of delirium while visiting with patients, but added that ...

Critically ill patients on life support commonly develop delirium, but new research shows that music can help, according to a study published in the American Journal of Critical Care. Delirium is a ...

Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...