Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Delirium in critically ill patients. | Available online http content 6 3 181 Commentary Delirium in critically ill patients Nicolas Bergeron1 Yoanna Skrobik2 and Marc-Jacques Dubois3 1 Clinical Fellow Department of Psychiatry Service of Consultation-Liaison Cabrini Medical Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York USA 2Intensivist Critical Care Division Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Montreal Quebec Canada 3Research Fellow Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels Brussels Belgium and Intensivist Critical Care Division University of Montreal Hospital Montreal Quebec Canada Correspondence Marc-Jacques Dubois mduboisicu@ Published online 5 April 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 181-182 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Delirium in the intensive care unit is a serious problem that has recently attracted much attention. Userfriendly and reliable tools such as the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit CAM-ICU offer the clinician the opportunity to identify delirium in patients better. Diagnosis of delirium in a critical care population is often a difficult task because classical psychiatric evaluation is impossible for a number of reasons. The CAM-ICU makes use of nonverbal assessments to evaluate the cardinal features of delirium . acute or fluctuating onset inattention disorganized thinking and altered level of consciousness . Its development for use in the critical care setting represents a significant advance that could lead to better care for such patients. Keywords artificial delirium intensive care unit respiration Diagnosis of delirious patients in a critical setting is a difficult task that is fraught with pitfalls. Any effort to address this issue deserves mention and that of Ely et al. 1 is certainly no exception to this. Delirium in the ICU an entity that is associated with increased mortality morbidity and duration of stay 2-4 has recently attracted significant attention. The .
