Search results for "Delirium"
Lots to learn about long-term care
A new curriculum helped hospitalists moving into postacute care fill gaps in their knowledge base.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/lots-to-learn-about-long-term-care.htm
28 Feb 2024
Program with family reduced postoperative delirium, functional decline in older patients
The success of a tailored, family-involved program that targeted delirium risk factors in Chinese patients after noncardiac surgery shows that U.S. hospitals could learn from cultures that more closely involve families in care, according to an editorial accompanying the study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/30/2.htm
30 Oct 2019
April 3, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/03/
Flexible visitation, ICU diaries have little effect on delirium, PTSD
Allowing ICU visits for up to 12 hours per day did not affect delirium rates versus 4.5 hours or less per day, and ICU diaries completed by family members and clinicians didn't reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) compared with usual care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/24/4.htm
24 Jul 2019
July 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/
New prediction rule may help detect delirium at hospital admission
Researchers used modeling to identify four potential risk factors (cognitive impairment, infection, sodium level, and age of 80 years or older) and created a consolidated prediction rule.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/29/2.htm
29 Aug 2018
June 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/
Antipsychotics didn't reduce duration of delirium and coma in ICU patients
Patients who received IV boluses of haloperidol or ziprasidone for delirium also had similar 30-day and 90-day survival, lengths of stay, and extrapyramidal symptoms as those given placebo.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/31/1.htm
31 Oct 2018
March 13, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/13/
Earplugs in ICU patients associated with decreased delirium risk
The systematic review included studies that observed earplugs as an isolated intervention, bundled the earplugs with eye shades, and looked at earplugs, eye shades, and additional sleep noise abatement strategies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/02/2.htm
2 Mar 2016