Detecting and treating delirium - Key interventions you may be missing

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 726-734

  Ghandour, Abdulraouf ^a   Saab, Rola ^b   Mehr, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LEVODOPA; LORAZEPAM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OLANZAPINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYCODONE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SOMNOLENCE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84856941929     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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