Acute Confusional States in Elderly Patients Treated for Femoral Neck Fracture

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 525-530

  Gustafson, Y ^a   Berggren, D ^a   Brannstrom B ^b   Bucht, G ^a   Norberg, A ^b   Hansson, L I ^a   Winblad, B ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Umedalen Hospital ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS, BENZODIAZEPINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFUSION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023896124     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb04023.x     Document Type: Article

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