An update on delirium in the postoperative setting: Prevention, diagnosis and management

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-343

  Shim, J Jewel ^a   Leung, Jacqueline M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

multi component interventions for postoperative delirium; postoperative delirium; prevention of postoperative delirium; risk factors for postoperative delirium

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DONEPEZIL; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PROPOFOL; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; RIVASTIGMINE; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADD ON THERAPY; AGE; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-IV; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE DELIRIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING TEST; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867158826     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2012.08.003     Document Type: Review

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