According to the researchers, maintaining leisure activities later in life could be an important way to lessen the chances of developing
delirium following surgery.
Not exact matches
Delirium was not only a strong and independent factor in predicting mortality, but was also associated with longer hospital stay and more frequent rehospitalisations during
follow - up.
Delirious patients were closely
followed by nursing and medical staff who used a flowchart for
delirium treatment.
This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been
following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent
delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.
Delirium is an acute state of confusion that often affects older adults
following surgery or serious illness.
Over the
following 18 months, these patients demonstrated lesser functional recovery than those who did not experience
delirium.
Stephanie Grant who
followed Decorating
Delirium on Pinterest is our lucky winner.
We will need to return to the matter of this
delirium in what
follows.
The talk will be
followed by a conversation between Pérez - Barreiro and Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Donna De Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curators of Hélio Oiticica: To Organize
Delirium.