Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) delirium: A "psychosomatic" problem?

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-225

  Reich, Michel ^a   Rohn, Regis ^a   Lefevre, Daniele ^a  

^a CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

Author keywords

Death anxiety; ICU delirium; Psychosomatic; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CASE REPORT; DELIRIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SARCOMA;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DELIRIUM; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRECIPITATING FACTORS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA;

EID: 77957014851     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509990964     Document Type: Article

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