Post‐Operative Delirium: Predictors and Prognosis in Elderly Orthopedic Patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1992, Pages 759-767

  Williams‐Russo, Pamela ^a   Urquhart, Barbara L ^a   Sharrock, Nigel E ^a   Charlson, Mary E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DELIRIUM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; ILEUS; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BUPIVACAINE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELIRIUM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEW YORK CITY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026732557     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1992.tb01846.x     Document Type: Article

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