ArticleIndian journal of psychiatry2019
Delirium in medical intensive care units: Incidence, subtypes, risk factors, and outcome.
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- Mortality Risk Following Delirium in Older Inpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2025Pooled it
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- Patient Outcomes and Management Strategies for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)-Associated Delirium: A Literature Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Risk factors for hypoactive delirium in patients with nontraumatic ARDS: a prospective observational study.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Prevalence and risk factors of delirium in older patients admitted to a tertiary care centre in South India: A prospective, observational study.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2023Article
- Altered Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway in Delirium: A Review of the Current Literature.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Incidence, Subtypes, Risk factors, and Outcome of Delirium: A Prospective Observational Study from Indian Intensive Care Unit.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- Incidence and interaction factors of delirium as an independent risk of mortality in elderly patients in the intensive units: a retrospective analysis from MIMIC-IV database.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Acute kidney injury-associated delirium: a review of clinical and pathophysiological mechanisms.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Review
- Associations of Smoking With Delirium and Opioid Use in Older Adults With Traumatic Hip Fracture.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2022Observational
- Pharmacokinetics of Haloperidol in Critically Ill Patients: Is There an Association with Inflammation?Pharmaceutics · 2022Article
- Monthlong Intubated Patient with Life-Threatening COVID-19 and Cerebral Microbleeds Suffers Only Mild Cognitive Sequelae at 8-Month Follow-up: A Case Report.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDelirium is a frequent yet underdiagnosed neuropsychiatric condition encountered in intensive care units (ICUs). Being both a preventable and potentially reversible process associated with significant morbidity and mortality, understanding risk factors that predispose and precipitate delirium in any given patient are critical in ICUs. AIMS AND
objectivesThe aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence, motor subtypes, risk factors, and clinical outcome of delirium in the medical ICU. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe used a prospective study design on a cohort of consecutive medical ICU admissions of a tertiary care teaching hospital. The Confusion Assessment Method-ICU and Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale were used to diagnose and motor subtype delirium, respectively, along with a checklist to assess risk factors.
resultsOf the 280 ICU admissions, 88 (31.4%) developed delirium. Hypoactive delirium was the most common motor subtype (55.7%). The detection rate of delirium was 12.5% (lowest for hypoactive delirium at 2.04%). Age, gender, and years of education did not significantly predict delirium (all
conclusionDetection of delirium is challenging, especially in ICU patients on mechanical ventilation and hypoactive delirium. Screening and monitoring for predisposing and precipitating risk factors can greatly improve the odds of detection and intervention as ICU delirium is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
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