Selected References

Delirium Overview

Ouimet S, Riker R, Bergeon N, Cossette M, Kavanagh B, Skrobik Y. Subsyndromal delirium in the ICU: evidence for a disease spectrum. Intensive Care Med. 2007. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17404704.

J. Bruce, C. W. Ritchie, R. Blizard, R. Lai, and P. Raven. The incidence of delirium associated with orthopedic surgery: a meta-analytic review. Int.Psychogeriatr.:1-18, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16973101&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum.

M. Dasgupta and A. C. Dumbrell. Preoperative risk assessment for delirium after noncardiac surgery: a systematic reveiw. J Am Geriatr Soc, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed.

R. O. Hopkins and J. C. Jackson. Assessing neurocognitive outcomes after critical illness: are delirium and long-term cognitive impairments related? Curr Opin Crit Care 12:388-394, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16943714.

R. O. Hopkins and J. C. Jackson. Long-term neurocognitive function after critical illness. Chest 130 (3):869-878, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16963688.

A. H. Miller and K. K. Mangione. Does delirium need immediate medical referral in a frail, homebound elder? J Geriatr Phys.Ther. 29 (2):57-63, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16914067&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum.

J. F. Peterson, B. T. Pun, R. S. Dittus, J. W. Thomason, J. C. Jackson, A. K. Shintani, and E. W. Ely. Delirium and its motoric subtypes: a study of 614 critically ill patients. J.Am.Geriatr.Soc. 54 (3):479-484, 2006.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16551316&query_hl=14&itool=pubmed_docsum

Pandharipande P, Jackson J, Ely EW. Delirium: acute cognitive dysfunction in the critically ill.
Curr Opin Crit Care. 2005 Aug;11(4):360-8. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16015117&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

D. J. Meagher. Delirium: optimizing management. BMJ 322 (7279):144-149, 2001
Amador LF, Goodwin JS. Postoperative delirium in the older patient. J Am Coll Surg 2005; 200:767-773.

Truman B, Ely EW. Monitoring delirium in critically ill patients. Crit Care Nurse 2003; 23:25-36.
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Lipowski ZJ. Delirium in the elderly patient. N Engl J Med 1989; 320:578-582.
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Inouye SK, Schlesinger MJ, Lyndon TJ. Delirium: a symptom of how hospital care is failing older persons and a window to improve quality of hospital care. Am J Med 1999; 106:565-573.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10335730&dopt=Abstract

Ely EW, Siegel MD, Inouye S. Delirium in the intensive care unit: an under-recognized syndrome of organ dysfunction. Sem Respir Crit Care Med 2001; 22:115-126.

Ely EW, Stephens RK, Jackson JC, Thomason J, Truman B, Bernard G et al. Current opinions regarding the importance, diagnosis, and management of delirium in the intensive care unit: A survey of 912 Healthcare professionals. Crit Care Med; 32:106-112, 2004.
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