Is postoperative delirium after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) just a transient annoyance, or is it a harbinger of ...

Delirium affected 44% of critically ill patients in an Ohio medical center who were hospitalized after a recent stroke, according to new research published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

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

University of Queensland researchers have found older patients who experience delirium are three times more likely to develop dementia. Professor Ruth Hubbard from UQ's Center for Health Services ...

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 ...

In cancer patients nearing the end of life, certain subtypes of delirium -- specifically, hypoactive and 'mixed' delirium -- are a strong indicator that death will come soon, reports a new study. In ...

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 ...

Intensive care unit delirium, a fertile area of clinical research and patient care innovation associated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is beginning to reshape how commercial electronic ...

A new study published on the online preprint server medRxiv* in May 2020 reports on the high incidence of delirium in COVID-19 patients in intensive care. This highlights the urgent need to predict, ...