Delirium news from FierceHealthcare
NewsEDs fail to recognize elder cognitive impairment
Older patients with cognitive impairment, such as dementia and delirium, pay a large number of visits to emergency departments (ED), but EDs may be ill equipped to identify their impairment, Read more...
Medication, drug-related hospitalizations skyrocket
Hospital admissions among Americans ages 45 and older for medication and drug-related conditions doubled between 1997 and 2008, according to a report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Read more...
Delirium in elderly hospital patients can increase length of stay, risk of death
The occurrence of delirium in elderly hospital patients in recent years has gone from what doctors once believed to be a "reversible transient phenomenon" to a growing cause of death for such Read more...
Study: Light sedation could lower post-operative danger for elderly
A new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins concludes that if operative teams limit the depth of sedation used during procedures on the elderly, it could safely lower the long-term risk of health Read more...
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