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Delirium - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Delirium might be due to not having enough of an important nutrient in the body, such as having low sodium levels. Delirium also may be caused by some medicines, infection, surgery, or substance use or withdrawal, including alcohol and other drugs.
Delirium: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
Delirium is new or worsened confusion and changes to your mental abilities. It affects your thinking, memory, awareness and focus. It may cause you to act very differently than you typically would. It develops over hours to days. It could go away if your doctor finds and treats the cause.
Delirium - Wikipedia
In common usage, delirium can refer to drowsiness, agitation, disorientation, or hallucinations. In medical terminology, however, the core features of delirium include an acute disturbance in attention, awareness, and global cognition.
What is Delirium
What is Delirium? Delirium is a state of confusion that comes on very suddenly and lasts hours to days. If your loved one becomes delirious, it means she/he cannot think very clearly, can’t pay attention and is not really aware of their environment.
Delirium - PMC
Delirium is a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome that is characterized by acute onset of deficits in attention and other aspects of cognition. Patients also often have altered arousal, from reduced responsiveness at the level of near-coma to hypervigilance and severe agitation.
Delirium - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Delirium is an altered state of consciousness, characterized by episodes of confusion, that can develop over hours or days. “Delirium is a syndrome, not a disease,” Oh clarifies, noting that it affects people of all ages, but especially older adults who are acutely ill.
Psychiatry.org - Delirium
Learn more about practice guidelines for prevention and treatment of delirium.
Delirium: a guide for the general physician - PMC
Delirium describes a sudden onset change in mental status of fluctuating course. This is a state of altered consciousness characterised chiefly by inattention or lack of arousal, but can also include new impairment of language, perception and behaviour.
Delirium: Types, Causes, and Treatment - Healthline
Delirium is an abrupt change in the brain that causes mental confusion. Symptoms include unclear speaking or thinking, drowsiness, short-term memory loss, and more.
UpToDate
This webpage provides comprehensive information on prevention, treatment, and prognosis of delirium and acute confusional states.
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