Delirium: An Emerging Frontier in the Management of Critically Ill Children

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 593-614

  Smith, Heidi A B ^a   Fuchs, D Catherine ^b   Pandharipande, Pratik P ^b   Barr, Frederick E ^b   Ely, E Wesley ^b  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain dysfunction; Confusion; Critical care; Delirium; Encephalopathy; Pediatric; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PROPOFOL; RISPERIDONE; SEDATIVE AGENT; ZIPRASIDONE;

ALERTNESS; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSTIPATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSTONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LARYNX SPASM; LETHARGY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MOBILIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPECTACLES; STUPOR; TORSADE DES POINTES; URINE RETENTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; CHILD; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC;

EID: 67649306401     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2009.05.002     Document Type: Review

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