Bedside-teaching on dementia and delirium: Development, implementation, and evaluation in an acute care hospitalAbstract:Background: Demographic change and the accompanying increase in people with dementia and delirium in ...
Bei einer Patientin mit einer rasch fortschreitenden kognitiven Störung wird ein Sick-Sinus-Syndrom diagnostiziert, die kognitive Störung verschlechtert sich auch nach Implantation eines Herzschrittmachers weiter. Schliesslich wird eine Epstein-Barr-Virus-...
Zusammenfassung:Hintergrund: Schon lange ist bekannt, dass ältere Menschen ein erhöhtes Risiko haben, delirant zu werden. Allgemein werden schwere körperliche Erkrankungen, insbesondere eine Multimorbidität als Risikofaktoren für ein Delir bei älteren ...
Zusammenfassung: Das Delir (“akuter Verwirrtheitszustand”) bezeichnet eine psychische Störung, die plötzlich auftritt, durch eine rasche Fluktuation von Bewusstseinslage und Aufmerksamkeitsleistung gekennzeichnet ist und eine organische Ursache hat. ...Diagnosis of Delirium: Development of a Modified, German Version of the CAMAbstract: Delirium (“acute confusional state”) denotes a mental disorder, which occurs suddenly and has an organic cause. It is characterised by rapid fluctuations of ...
Zusammenfassung:Einleitung: Zwar ist ein schweres Delir nicht zu übersehen, leichtere reversible Störungen kognitiver Leistungen werden vielfach nicht diagnostiziert, treten jedoch -- besonders im höheren Lebensalter - häufiger auf. Die Frage für die ...Investigations on Psychopathological and Neuropsychological Symptoms of DeliriumAbstract:Introduction: A severe delirium is rarely missed diagnostically but mild reversible cognitive deficits are quite common in the elderly and they are often ...
Prevalence, influencing factors, screening and diagnosis of delirium at stationary hospitalised patients in a Swiss acute hospital – a pilot studyAbstract. Background: Deliria have a massive effect on patients, from increased duration of hospitalization ...
Delirium prevention and management: Development and implementation of a non-pharmacological catalog of measures in the acute settingAbstract.Background: In October 2018, a new delirium management concept was developed in a ...
Evaluation of the implementation of non-pharmacological measures for the prevention and treatment of delirium: A retrospective cohort studyAbstract. Background: Delirium is burdensome for the affected patients, their ...
The use of the DOS and Delirium Prevalence: a quantitative longitudinal study at a Swiss-German central hospitalAbstract:Background: With a prevalence of 12–64%, delirium is a common complication in acute care, associated ...
Mediterranean Fever in Bavaria: Delirium with Katatonic Stupor Shown by Homocygotic Twins with Familial Mediterranean FeverAbstract: Genetic disposition for familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is widely distributed among the Mediterranean population. ...
Geriatric PsychiatryAbstract. Psychiatry of old age represents the part of psychiatry with the closest links to the rest of somatic medicine. Several central diagnostic and therapeutic topics with growing importance are summarized in the volume: ...
Treatment of Delirium in Old AgeAbstract: Delirium in old age is a frequent and devastating complication of internal and surgical disease. Although preventable, it has a significant economical impact. On the basis of age, multi-morbidity and sensory ...
Delirium is an acute confusion state of multifactorial genesis, commonly seen in the elderly with multimorbidity. Age and dementia, followed by infections and polypharmacy, are known as the most important risk factors. Increased disease interactions and ...
Endocrine Causes of DeliriumAbstract. Delirium is common in hospitalized patients and apart from well known vascular, infectious and toxic causes there are many endocrine diseases which may also present as an acute confusional state. The review provides ...
Recommendations for the Prevention, Diagnostic and Therapy of Delirium in the ElderlyAbstract. Delirium is a aetiologically unspecific confusional state mainly found in elderly persons and dementia. The acute beginning, fluctuations of the clinical ...
The Physical Examination of an ’Uncooperative’ Elderly PatientAbstract. The physical examination of uncooperative elderly patients regularly presents physicians in the private practice, in the hospital or nursing home with ...
Recognition of Psychiatric Symptoms in Inpatient Long-Term CareAbstract. As part of the Swiss national strategy on dementia, we investigated to which extent the needs assessment instruments RAI and BESA can early ...
Delirium Management in Palliative CareAbstract. Delirium is one of the most common neuropsychiatric complications in patients with advanced incurable disease. End-of-life delirium is common but is often overlooked, ...