ReviewIntensive care medicine2017
The intensive care delirium research agenda: a multinational, interprofessional perspective.
Review in Intensive care medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 213 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of neostigmine on postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Family-centred care interventions to reduce the delirium prevalence in critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Nursing open · 2022Pooled it
- Outcomes of postoperative delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Heterogeneity in design and analysis of ICU delirium randomized trials: a systematic review.Trials · 2021Pooled it
- The effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in reducing the incidence and duration of delirium in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Intensive care medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Actigraphy to Evaluate Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit. A Systematic Review.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2018Pooled it
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- Prevention of post-operative delirium using an overnight infusion of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a pragmatic, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Aripiprazole for prevention of delirium in the neurosurgical intensive care unit: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020Trial
- Association Between Cumulative Sedative Exposure and ICU Length of Stay Without a Significant Association with Mortality.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Encephalopathy in mechanically ventilated adult patients in the intensive care unit: the role of β-Lactam overdosing.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Design of a Mobile and Electromagnetic Emissions-Compliant Brain Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Assessing psychological distress in cancer patients in intensive care: Validation of the intensive care psychological assessment tool in Mexico.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
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- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on ICU Nurses' Knowledge of Delirium: A Quasi-Experimental Approach.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Delirium at the intensive care unit and long-term survival: a retrospective study.BMC neurology · 2025Observational
- Delirium Management Quality Improvement Project to Improve Awareness and Screening in a Medical ICU.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Delirium, a prevalent organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, is independently associated with increased morbidity. This last decade has witnessed an exponential growth in delirium research in hospitalized patients, including those critically ill, and this research has highlighted that delirium needs to be better understood mechanistically to help foster research that will ultimately lead to its prevention and treatment. In this invited, evidence-based paper, a multinational and interprofessional group of clinicians and researchers from within the fields of critical care medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, anesthesiology, geriatrics, surgery, neurology, nursing, pharmacy, and the neurosciences sought to address five questions: (1) What is the current standard of care in managing ICU delirium? (2) What have been the major recent advances in delirium research and care? (3) What are the common delirium beliefs that have been challenged by recent trials? (4) What are the remaining areas of uncertainty in delirium research? (5) What are some of the top study areas/trials to be done in the next 10 years? Herein, we briefly review the epidemiology of delirium, the current best practices for management of critically ill patients at risk for delirium or experiencing delirium, identify recent advances in our understanding of delirium as well as gaps in knowledge, and discuss research opportunities and barriers to implementation, with the goal of promoting an integrated research agenda.
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