I am a 69-year-old woman. I’m in good health despite various events that happened last year (i.e., a hole in my stomach ...

Research, with promising results, was widespread at VA hospitals and other institutions until the late 1960s, when moral ...

I recently read this morning that the shingles vaccine, Shingrix, “may have a protective effect against dementia.” It goes on ...

Delirium is an acute disorder of attention and cognition that includes the following elements: “alteration of consciousness, change in cognition, acute onset, fluctuating course and reduced ...

ICU delirium is severe confusion that can happen to people while they’re in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). There are several possible reasons for it, and it can lead to serious and ...

ONE of the chief aims in the present-day treatment of the acutely ill alcoholic patient is to provide adequate symptomatic control of severe acute intoxication, delirium tremens, the withdrawal ...

However, in some cases, they can last for weeks. Delirium tremens is an extreme syndrome of alcohol withdrawal. It is a medical emergency and can result in death if not promptly treated. Symptoms may ...

Delirium. People with delirium may either be quiet and withdrawn or become extremely agitated and confused. The episodes of confusion can come with mostly paranoid delusions and hallucinations.

But the music keeps playing. Mon Mothma keeps dancing. In this sweeping moment of ecstatic delirium, she embraces what she has become. It’s not how anyone might have imagined that Andor might ...

Baseline delirium scores were assessed upon arrival in the operating room. The control group received a standard 1.0 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of sevoflurane for maintenance after ...

Up to one-third of older adults staying in the hospital can develop a condition called delirium. It is especially common in people age 65 and older. What is delirium? “Delirium is like an acute brain ...