Diagnóstico del delirium en pacientes con demencia, un gran reto
| Autor: | Marta García-Salmones, Neus Gual, Laura Mónica Pérez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Health professionals
business.industry Cognition General Medicine medicine.disease Arousal 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Level of consciousness mental disorders Medicine Delirium Dementia In patient 030212 general & internal medicine High incidence medicine.symptom business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Medicina Clínica. 153:284-289 |
| ISSN: | 0025-7753 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.medcli.2019.05.005 |
| Popis: | Delirium, despite its high incidence, serious consequences and potential reversibility, remains an underdiagnosed syndrome. In patients with dementia, the healthcare professional may find significant difficulties in differentiating whether the patient presents cognitive alterations and behavioural disorders characteristic of dementia or, on the contrary, is faced with a delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD). In view of this difficulty, many tools have been proposed in recent years to improve the diagnosis of DSD in these highly complex patients. The aim of these tools is to be easy and quick to apply, and although focusing on assessing cognitive aspects such as attention or level of consciousness, some of them have also incorporated the assessment of other more novel aspects, such as the ability to respond to external stimuli (Arousal) or the degree of mobility. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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