Delirium

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A New Severity Scoring Scale for the 3-Minute Confusion Assessment Method (3D-CAM). 
  • A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Adherence to a Pain, Agitation, and Delirium Protocol in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • A case of delirium, motor disturbances, and autonomic dysfunction due to baclofen and tizanidine withdrawal: a review of the literature. 
  • A case of infant delirium in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • A case of intermittent delirious mania. 
  • A greater analgesia, sedation, delirium order set quality score is associated with a decreased duration of mechanical ventilation in cardiovascular surgery patients. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Acute Mental Status Change, Delirium, and New Onset Psychosis. 
  • Advancing our diagnostic tools and treatment options for delirium. 
  • Alprazolam withdrawal presenting as delirium after cardiac surgery. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Postoperative Delirium Prevention. 
  • Apolipoprotein E4 polymorphism as a genetic predisposition to delirium in critically ill patients. 
  • Association between Serum IGF-I levels and Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Subjects Undergoing Elective Knee Arthroplasty. 
  • Association between hospital volume and network membership and an analgesia, sedation and delirium order set quality score: a cohort study. 
  • Bach to the Basics: Implementation and Impact of a Postoperative, Inpatient Personalized Music Program for Older Adults. 
  • Behavioral observations reflected on consultation requests from primary medical-surgical services: are they predictive of delirium diagnosis and outcomes? 
  • Best Practices for Postoperative Brain Health: Recommendations From the Fifth International Perioperative Neurotoxicity Working Group. 
  • Brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in ECT-induced delirium. 
  • Brainstem dysfunction as a predictor of death in the nonneurologically injured. 
  • Breaking barriers in postoperative delirium. 
  • Bridging silos: Taking a page from the Alzheimer playbook. 
  • Cardiac complications and delirium associated with valerian root withdrawal. 
  • Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. 
  • Climbing the delirium mountain: is alpine anaesthesia the perioperative cause? 
  • Clinical and Neuroimaging Correlates of Post-Transplant Delirium. 
  • Clinical update on nursing home medicine: 2014. 
  • Combination of lithium and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is associated with higher odds of delirium and cognitive problems in a large national sample across the United States. 
  • Defining the Role of Dexmedetomidine in the Prevention of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Delirium Screening and Management in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. 
  • Delirium affects length of hospital stay after lung transplantation. 
  • Delirium after cardiac surgery: have we overlooked obstructive sleep apnea? 
  • Delirium as a predictor of mortality and disability among hospitalized patients in Zambia. 
  • Delirium detection and improved delirium management in older patients hospitalized for hip fracture. 
  • Delirium in Critically Ill Children: An International Point Prevalence Study. 
  • Delirium in older persons. 
  • Delirium is a robust predictor of morbidity and mortality among critically ill patients treated in the cardiac intensive care unit. 
  • Delirium monitoring and patient outcomes in a general intensive care unit. 
  • Delirium: diagnosis and treatment. 
  • Delirium: the struggle to vanquish an ancient foe. 
  • Delirium: where do we stand? 
  • Depression as an independent predictor of postoperative delirium in spine deformity patients undergoing elective spine surgery. 
  • Depressive Symptoms and Risk of Postoperative Delirium. 
  • Discharge Plans for Geriatric Inpatients with Delirium: A Plan to Stop Antipsychotics? 
  • Does this patient have delirium?: value of bedside instruments. 
  • Domains of delirium severity in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. 
  • ECT-induced delirium and further ECT: a case report. 
  • ECT-induced delirium in depressed patients with Parkinson's disease. 
  • Early Recognition of Preventable Factors Associated with Delirium Saves Lives and Costs. 
  • Early identification of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Early Identification of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Panel. 
  • Early recognition of Alzheimer's disease: what is consensual? What is controversial? What is practical? 
  • Educational interventions to improve recognition of delirium: a systematic review. 
  • Effect of Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices on CNS Infarction in Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effectiveness of Quetiapine as a Sedative Adjunct in Mechanically Ventilated Adults Without Delirium. 
  • Evidence for the diagnostic criteria of delirium: an update. 
  • Examination of QTc Values in Critically Ill Patients Diagnosed with Delirium and Prescribed Atypical Antipsychotics. 
  • Executive function and depression as independent risk factors for postoperative delirium. 
  • Extended anesthesia exposure for abdominal and pelvic procedures in older adults with colorectal cancer: Associations with chart dementia diagnoses. 
  • Flaws in the serum anticholinergic activity assay: implications for the study of delirium. 
  • Guilty by association?*. 
  • Haloperidol for the management of delirium in adult intensive care unit patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Identifying pediatric emergence delirium by using the PAED Scale: a quality improvement project. 
  • Identifying the Most Important Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Publications in 2020 Using a Novel Literature Assessment Instrument. 
  • Impact of Cognitive Impairment Across Specialties: Summary of a Report From the U13 Conference Series. 
  • Impact of a Real-Time, Pharmacist-Led, Intensive Care Unit-Based Feedback Intervention on Analgesia and Sedation Quality Among Mechanically Ventilated Patients. 
  • Impact of restarting home neuropsychiatric medications on sedation outcomes in medical intensive care unit patients. 
  • Implications of atypical antipsychotic prescribing in the intensive care unit. 
  • Improved analgesia, sedation, and delirium protocol associated with decreased duration of delirium and mechanical ventilation. 
  • Improving post-intensive care unit neuropsychiatric outcomes: understanding cognitive effects of physical activity. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor 1 and delirium. 
  • International drive to illuminate delirium: A developing public health blueprint for action. 
  • Intraoperative Glycemic Control to Prevent Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: Steering a Course between Scylla and Charybdis. 
  • Intravenous ziprasidone for treatment of delirium in the intensive care unit. 
  • Low-Dose Ketamine Infusion to Decrease Postoperative Delirium for Spinal Fusion Patients. 
  • Matching the environment to patients with delirium: lessons learned from the delirium room, a restraint-free environment for older hospitalized adults with delirium. 
  • Measures of executive function and depression identify patients at risk for postoperative delirium. 
  • Melatonin and melatonin-receptor agonists to prevent delirium in hospitalized older adults: An umbrella review. 
  • Morbidity following lower extremity fractures in men with spinal cord injury. 
  • Neuroinflammation and Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders. 
  • Neurovascular and immune mechanisms that regulate postoperative delirium superimposed on dementia. 
  • Obstructive sleep apnea and delirium: exploring possible mechanisms. 
  • Obstructive sleep apnea and incidence of postoperative delirium after elective knee replacement in the nondemented elderly. 
  • Older Adults in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Factoring Geriatric Syndromes in the Management, Prognosis, and Process of Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Orthopedic Surgery Triggers Attention Deficits in a Delirium-Like Mouse Model. 
  • Osteoporotic fractures in older adults. 
  • Oxidative Stress Response and Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: Can Circulating Biomarkers Refine New Therapeutic Paradigms? 
  • Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health in Spine Surgery: Impact on Postoperative Delirium. 
  • Perioperative cerebrospinal fluid and plasma inflammatory markers after orthopedic surgery. 
  • Pharmacologic Intervention for the Treatment and Prevention of Delirium: Looking Beneath the Modeling. 
  • Pilot prospective study of post-surgery sleep and EEG predictors of post-operative delirium. 
  • Possible tobramycin delirium. 
  • Post-operative delirium is an independent predictor of 30-day hospital readmission after spine surgery in the elderly (≥65years old): A study of 453 consecutive elderly spine surgery patients. 
  • Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Minding the Gaps in Our Knowledge of a Common Postoperative Complication in the Elderly. 
  • Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Two Sides of the Same Coin? 
  • Postoperative delirium: etiology and management. 
  • Preclinical and translational models for delirium: Recommendations for future research from the NIDUS delirium network. 
  • Preoperative Cognitive Assessment Recommendations for the Older Adult. 
  • Preoperative Hemoglobin Level is Associated with Increased Health Care Use After Elective Spinal Fusion (≥3 Levels) in Elderly Male Patients with Spine Deformity. 
  • Preoperative Serum Metabolites Are Associated With Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Hip-Fracture Patients. 
  • Pretransplant physical frailty, postoperative delirium, and short-term outcomes among older lung transplant recipients. 
  • Preventing delirium after cardiothoracic surgery: provocative but preliminary evidence for bispectral index monitoring. 
  • Prevention of atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery. 
  • Progress in delirium. 
  • Prolonged Delirium With Catatonia Following Orthotopic Liver Transplant Responsive to Memantine. 
  • Propofol and the risk of delirium: exploring the anticholinergic properties of propofol. 
  • Quetiapine for the treatment of delirium. 
  • Radiologic correlates of antidepressant-induced delirium: the possible significance of basal-ganglia lesions. 
  • Ramelteon for Prevention of Postoperative Delirium: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients Undergoing Elective Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy. 
  • Readmission and adverse outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with dementia. 
  • Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Cognitive Change Associated With Anaesthesia and Surgery-2018. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Reduced Cerebral Perfusion Pressure during Lung Transplant Surgery Is Associated with Risk, Duration, and Severity of Postoperative Delirium. 
  • Reflective Writing to Teach Interdisciplinary Management of Delirium to Internal Medicine Residents. 
  • Regional vs General Anesthesia and Incidence of Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery. 
  • Regional vs General Anesthesia and Incidence of Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery. 
  • Report and Research Agenda of the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Bedside-to-Bench Conference on Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Translational Research Agenda for a Complex Geriatric Syndrome. 
  • Studying acute confusion in long-term care: clinical investigation or secondary data analysis using the minimum data set? 
  • Subcortical structural changes in ECT-induced delirium. 
  • The Devil Is in the Details: Comparison of Postoperative Delirium and Neurocognitive Dysfunction. 
  • The INTUIT Study: Investigating Neuroinflammation Underlying Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction. 
  • The MARBLE Study Protocol: Modulating ApoE Signaling to Reduce Brain Inflammation, DeLirium, and PostopErative Cognitive Dysfunction. 
  • The Role of Amantadine Withdrawal in 3 Cases of Treatment-Refractory Altered Mental Status. 
  • The electroencephalogram in pediatric practice: its use and abuse. 
  • The impact of delirium on clinical outcomes in mechanically ventilated surgical and trauma patients. 
  • The impact of delirium on withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment after intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • The potential link between obstructive sleep apnea and postoperative neurocognitive disorders: current knowledge and possible mechanisms. 
  • The preventability of ventilator-associated events. The CDC Prevention Epicenters Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative. 
  • Things We Do for No Reason: Neuroimaging for Hospitalized Patients with Delirium. 
  • This Is Your Brain on (Low) Glucose. 
  • URMC-099 prophylaxis prevents hippocampal vascular vulnerability and synaptic damage in an orthopedic model of delirium superimposed on dementia. 
  • Understanding cognition in older patients with cancer. 
  • Welcome to the fight: the cardiovascular ICU faces the challenge of delirium. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berger, Miles, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke Science & Society
  • Blitz, Jeanna, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, General, Vascular, High Risk Transplant & Critical Care
  • Blodgett, Thomas James, Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Browndyke, Jeffrey Nicholas, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Devinney, Michael, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
  • Eleswarpu, Sarada, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, General, Vascular, High Risk Transplant & Critical Care
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Taicher, Brad Matthew, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics