The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality, disproportionately against Black people, has circulated in the medical canon for more than 25 years. It ...

Delirium occurs often in patients with cancer, especially in advanced-stage disease, owing to acute precipitating factors such as infection or medication effects These precipitating factors are ...

Delirium (sometimes called 'acute confusional state') is a common clinical syndrome characterised by disturbed consciousness, cognitive function or perception, which has an acute onset and fluctuating ...

Survivors of critical illness can experience substantial morbidity long after the event. Recent findings provide further support that long-term cognitive impairment is frequent in these patients, and ...

In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she’s confused and agitated, insisting she’s at home and not in a hospital bed. Medical professionals call ...

A joint educational guideline from the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and ASCO got a refresh in the latter part of 2023. The overarching goal of the updated ESMO/ASCO Global Curriculum ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human-rights activist hailed ...

Adults with current or resolved delirium who are discharged from hospital have their diagnosis of delirium communicated to their GP. Improving communication between hospitals and GPs, and within ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Hallmark Health System recently launched a new pilot program that will focus on identifying and treating cases of delirium among patients at both Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and ...

Hallmark Health System recently launched a new pilot program that will focus on identifying and treating cases of delirium among patients at both Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and ...