The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality, disproportionately against Black people, has circulated in the medical canon for more than 25 years. It ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A report released Wednesday by the Physician for Human Rights unequivocally states that "excited delirium" has racist and unscientific origins and points to a death in Antioch, Calif ...

Delirium is a type of confusion that develops suddenly—over the course of hours or days—and most commonly affects older adults who are hospitalized or in a long-term care facility. “We refer to ...

Delirium is common after cardiac surgery and may be associated with long-term changes in cognitive function. We examined postoperative delirium and the cognitive trajectory during the first year after ...

Delirium occurs often in patients with cancer, especially in advanced-stage disease, owing to acute precipitating factors such as infection or medication effects These precipitating factors are ...

In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she’s confused and agitated, insisting she’s at home and not in a hospital bed. Medical professionals call ...

Delirium is commonly seen in the intensive care unit (ICU) after both surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement and raises the likelihood that patients will die in their first postoperative ...

Delirium (sometimes called 'acute confusional state') is a common clinical syndrome characterised by disturbed consciousness, cognitive function or perception, which has an acute onset and fluctuating ...

Marked by acute temporary confusion, disorientation and/or agitation, postoperative delirium is the most common post-surgical complication in older adults, striking as many as half of adults older ...

A recent review in Neurology infers that antibiotics causing delirium and other brain problems might be more prevalent than previously thought. The author calls for further study and a watchful ...

The scenario is simple. An 87-year-old woman is electively admitted to hospital because of postmenopausal bleeding. The diagnosis is endometrial cancer, and the treatment is a transabdominal ...