confusional

What are the causes of an acute confusional state in a patient?

The themes treated in lyrics often refer to psychological conditions and confusional states of the mind.

Your impulse control starts to go, people just fly off the handle, going into these agitated, confusional states.

Particularly geriatric patients may react with confusional states or develop delirium.

The disorder is called acute confusional state or delirium.

Night terrors can often be mistaken for the disorder of confusional arousal.

Confusional arousal is a condition when an individual awakens from sleep and remains in a confused state.

Patients can present with sudden increase in blood pressure, acute confusional state, headaches, vomiting, and seizure.

The elderly and especially those with pre-existing dementia are at most risk for drug induced acute confusional states.

Delirium (acute confusional state) is a sudden change in a person's mental status, leading to confusion and unusual behavior.

These disorders of arousal can range from confusional arousals, somnambulism, to night terrors.

Confusional arousals are not considered dangerous.

Parasomnias include nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, confusional arousals, and many others.

Delirium has also been referred to as 'acute confusional state' or 'acute brain syndrome'.

With a prevalence of 4%, confusional arousals are not observed very often in adults; however, they are common in children.

This is an important distinction to be made, as the introduction of antidepressant drugs during an organic confusional episode can worsen confusion.

Such spirits are often unable to leave this psychic atmosphere and in the resulting state of confusion-("confusional psychosis"?)

Additive sedative effects and confusional states may emerge if levomepromazine is given with benzodiazepines or barbiturates.

Drug-induced cognitive problems can have serious consequences for elderly people and can lead to confusional states and "pseudo-dementia".

Dementia necessarily implies some degree of permanent change; totally recoverable confusional states in which cognitive changes are prominent are thus excluded.

Complaints of insomnia, impotence, or gout, or the sudden onset of a confusional state could be indicators.

'Acute confusional insanity'.

Delirium was defined as an organic mental disorder involving a confusional state with attention deficit, disorganized thinking and a fluctuating course and acute development.

Less common (0.9% to 0.5% of patients): euphoria, tachycardia, tiredness, confusional states/memory impairment, cramps/pain, depression, visual disturbances.

Organic brain syndrome can be divided into 2 major subgroups: acute (delirium or acute confusional state) and chronic (dementia).