At UCSF Parnassus Campus, medical personnel go into work with a mission every day to prevent delirium - or hospital confusion ...

The most common symptoms of delirium include: Delirium symptoms usually come on suddenly and may come and go over the course ...

The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of ...

Delirium is defined as an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by fluctuating changes in cognition and consciousness. It can occur at any age, but it occurs more commonly in patients who are ...

Current research recognizes alcohol-related hallucinations, delusions, and delirium tremens, which are severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms, as symptoms of alcohol-induced psychosis. Healthcare ...

Anesthesia does not cause dementia. However, some people do develop a complication called postoperative delirium.

The following is a summary of “Alcohol-induced psychosis and delirium tremens: a comparison with alcohol dependence on ...

A group of healthcare professionals from Singapore visited Greater Manchester to learn about the region's successful approach ...

Ghose couldn’t correctly answer questions posed by his family and opioid painkillers only made his delirium worse. It took him days to shake off his symptoms. Patients with post-surgical ...