Delirium affected 44% of critically ill patients in an Ohio medical center who were hospitalized after a recent stroke, according to new research published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

Delirium and cognitive decline are common complications of anesthesia and surgery in older adults. Evidence-based recommendations on strategies to reduce the risk of postoperative neurocognitive ...

Delirium is common in hospitalized older patients and may be a symptom of a medical emergency, such as hypoxia or hypoglycemia. It is characterized by an acute change in cognition and attention, ...

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 4: Staff nurse Judith Marini checks an elderly man's IV in the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital October 4, 2002. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) I recently visited a ...

Older Canadian adults whose physicians prescribed first-generation antihistamines in the hospital were more likely to experience delirium, a cross-sectional study suggested. Aaron Drucker, MD ...

There is a stark gap in how often hospitals screen older adults for postoperative delirium, with verified geriatric surgery programs screening nearly every patient while non-accredited programs screen ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A condition most common in older adults can lead to longer hospitalizations. It's called delirium, and the treatment and prevention has become a key focus for doctors at UCSF's ...

Forty patients (24%) developed postoperative delirium, and these patients had displayed a greater mean macular thickness (283.35 µm) of the right eye at their preoperative assessment than the patients ...