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Common aetiologies include infection erectile dysfunction neurological causes cialis professional 20 mg order fast delivery, substance withdrawal (alcohol and nicotine), metabolic abnormalities. Predisposing delirium risk factors should be reviewed including older age, physical frailty, multiple medical comorbidities, dementia, admission to the hospital with infection or dehydration, visual impairment, deafness, polypharmacy, renal impairment, and malnutrition (Inouye, 2006). The evaluation of delirium may require laboratory test, imaging, or an electroencephalogram. Imaging can detect brain metastases or leptomeningeal disease, intracranial bleeding, or ischaemia. Occasionally, a lumbar puncture is needed to assess the possibility of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis or infectious meningitis (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). When confronted with delirium in the terminally ill or dying patient, a differential diagnosis should always be formulated as to the likely aetiology or aetiologies. However, consideration of individual goals of care, and prior function and disease trajectory, is needed to determine the extent to which these aetiologies are investigated (Leonard et al. Differential diagnosis of delirium Many of the clinical features of delirium can be associated with other psychiatric disorders such as depression, mania, psychosis, and dementia (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). Delirium, particularly the hypoactive subtype, is often initially misdiagnosed as depression. In distinguishing delirium from depression, particularly in the context of advanced disease, an evaluation of the onset and temporal sequencing of depressive and cognitive symptoms is particularly helpful. Importantly, the degree of cognitive impairment in delirium is much more severe than in depression, and usually has a more abrupt onset. Additionally, disturbance in level of alertness, which is characteristic of delirium, is not a feature of depression (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). A manic episode may share some features of a hyperactive or mixed subtype of delirium. The temporal onset and course of symptoms, the presence of a disturbance in level of alertness, as well as of cognition, and the identification of a presumed medical aetiology for delirium are helpful in diagnosis. A past psychiatric history or family history of mood disorders is usually evident in patients with depression or a manic episode (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). In delirium, such psychotic symptoms occur in the context of advanced medical illness with features of disturbance in level of alertness and impaired attention span, as well as memory impairment and disorientation, which is not the case in other psychotic disorders (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). The most challenging differential diagnostic issue is whether the patient has delirium, or dementia, or a delirium superimposed upon a pre-existing dementia. Both delirium and dementia are cognitive impairment disorders and share such common clinical features as impaired memory, thinking, judgement, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, executive dysfunction, and disorientation. In a study of 100 cancer patients that compared patients with delirium superimposed on dementia to those with delirium in the absence of dementia, the former presentation was characterized by more severe cognitive symptoms, poorer response to treatment, and a lower rate of resolution (Boettger et al. Clinically, the patient with dementia is alert and does not have the disturbance of level of alertness that is characteristic of delirium. The temporal onset of symptoms in dementia is more subacute and chronically progressive. Treatment may lead to reversal of the symptoms and signs of delirium, even in the patient with advanced illness; this also distinguishes the syndrome from dementia. However, as noted previously, delirium may not be reversible in the last 24­48 hours of life. A number of instruments can aid clinicians in the diagnosis of delirium, dementia, or delirium superimposed on dementia (Wong et al. Management of delirium the management of delirium should include both correction of underlying causes, if possible, and treatment of the symptoms and signs of the disorder (Breitbart and Alici, 2012). To minimize distress to patients, staff, and family members, treatment of the symptoms and signs should be initiated before, or in concert with, a diagnostic assessment of the aetiologies. The desired and often achievable outcome is a patient who is awake, alert, calm, comfortable, cognitively intact, not psychotic, not in pain, and communicating coherently with family and staff (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). However, they were not found to have any beneficial effects on mortality or health-related quality of life when compared with usual care (Milisen et al. Physical restraints should be avoided in patients who are at risk for developing delirium and for those with delirium (Breitbart and Alici, 2008). Recent evidence suggests that restraint-free management of patients should be the standard of care for prevention and treatment of delirium (Flaherty and Little, 2011). One-to-one observation may be necessary while maintaining safety of the patient without use of any restraints. Pharmacological interventions There have been an increasing number of delirium prevention and treatment studies published within the last decade.

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