Delirium. Advances in diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment

Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1996 Sep;19(3):429-48. doi: 10.1016/s0193-953x(05)70299-9.

Abstract

This article discusses research in the areas of morbidity and mortality, epidemiologic risk factors, phenomenology, pathophysiology, and treatment of delirium. Delirium assessment instruments are reviewed. The neuropathophysiologic understanding of delirium is discussed in the context of important CNS neural circuitry. Pharmacologic treatments of delirium in adults and children are outlined, with particular emphasis on intravenous use of butyrophenone neuroleptics.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antipsychotic Agents / adverse effects
  • Antipsychotic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Brain Mapping
  • Child
  • Delirium / diagnosis*
  • Delirium / physiopathology
  • Delirium / therapy
  • Droperidol / adverse effects
  • Droperidol / therapeutic use
  • Haloperidol / adverse effects
  • Haloperidol / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Patient Care Team*
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
  • Receptors, Neurotransmitter / physiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Synaptic Transmission / physiology

Substances

  • Antipsychotic Agents
  • Receptors, Neurotransmitter
  • Haloperidol
  • Droperidol