A clinical perspective of sepsis-associated delirium

Journal of Intensive Care

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tsuruta, Ryosuke ^a   Oda, Yasutaka ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute brain dysfunction; Coma; Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM ICU); Delirium; Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC); Sepsis associated encephalopathy (SAE)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DOPAMINE; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LORAZEPAM; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROCALCITONIN; PROTEIN C; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN PERFUSION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; SENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; SEPSIS ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 84991031852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20520492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40560-016-0145-4     Document Type: Review

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