Delirium: Pragmatic guidance for managing a common, confounding, and sometimes lethal condition

Geriatrics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 33-38+40

  Samuels, Steven C ^a   Evers, Martin M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORPROMAZINE; DROPERIDOL; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE SALICYLATE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TORSADE DES POINTES;

AGED; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS;

EID: 0036336232     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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