Delirium: A focused review

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 479-482

  Kirshner, Howard S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLUMAZENIL; GLUCOSE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; THIAMINE; TRANQUILIZER;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DELIRIUM; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HALLUCINATION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HALLUCINATIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36048956069     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0074-7     Document Type: Review

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