Evaluation and management of delirium in hospitalized older patients

American Family Physician

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1265-1270

  Miller, Marcia O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ELECTROLYTE; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; MYOGLOBIN; OLANZAPINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEDATIVE AGENT; THYROTROPIN; TROPONIN; UREA; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CONFUSION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGE; AGED; AGITATION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTERIAL GAS; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TOXICITY; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXCITATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYGIENE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALNUTRITION; MANIA; MORTALITY; MUCOSAL DRYNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOISE REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; ORTHOSTATIC BLOOD PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; PULSE RATE; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TURGOR; SLEEP; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE; VASCULITIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DELIRIUM; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149331395     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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