Delirium is common in the last weeks of life, occurring in 26 to 44 percent of hospitalized patients with advanced cancer, and in up to 88 percent of persons with terminal illness in the last days of ...

A single episode of delirium—a state of confusion and agitation—in hospitalized older adults is a significant risk factor for other serious health complications including fractures, stroke and sepsis, ...

A large UK Biobank study finds that older adults who experience delirium in hospital face a markedly elevated long-term risk ...

Researchers have developed a two-minute assessment tool to help hospital staff predict a patient's risk of delirium, a change in mental cognition characterized by severe confusion and disorientation ...

Of the 214 patients, 11% had a positive delirium screening test, and 2.3% had indeterminate delirium screening results. This ...

The defense for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin credited "excited delirium" as a contributing factor in George Floyd's death. But this term has no commonly accepted definition. In ...

Delirium is a sudden decline in a person’s usual mental function. It occurs when signals in the brain aren’t sending and receiving properly, causing confusion in thinking and altered behaviour or ...

Delerium is tied to a significantly increased risk for dementia and death in older adults, with men at particular risk, new research showed. Incident dementia risk was more than three times higher in ...

We must confront a terrifying fact, as it is, delirium in its distressing volatility, in its elusive content, is a temporal horizon between meaning and nothingness. Understanding the content of ...

The researchers found that subjects with higher AWOL scores were more likely to become disoriented and develop delirium. They also found that conversely, those with low AWOL scores were at relatively ...