CAPC Blog: Screening Delirium and Managing Delirium - What Clinicians Should Know
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has released a two-part blog for clinicians, the first part exploring the ins-and-outs of delirium and the second on managing delirium in patients with serious illness.
Delirium is commonly encountered across treatment settings, and is especially prevalent among patients with serious illness, with studies demonstrating rates of delirium as high as 74% in inpatient palliative care units. Understanding delirium, its presentation, risk factors and precipitants, and how to screen for it, are key to managing delirium.
- "Screening for Delirium: What Clinicians Should Know" discusses a variety of screening and evaluative tools for clinicians to identify patients with delirium and to determine its extent and severity.
- "Managing Delirium: What Clinicians Should Know" shares strategies that palliative care clinicians can use for managing and preventing delirium in their patients with serious illness, with a focus on behavioral interventions.
Read part one and part two.
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