Sentences with phrase «prevent delirium»

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.

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The acute confusional state known as delirium, however, can often be prevented by specialist nursing care after the operation, as Torsten Kratz and co-authors show in an original article in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

Activities such as reading, playing computer games, singing, emailing and even knitting may act as «exercise» for your brain, «strengthening» it in a way that could help prevent dementia and delirium.

It can also help design new interventions to prevent or treat delirium.»

Nearly 66 percent of all adverse events experienced by nursing home residents, such as falls, delirium and hallucinations, could be prevented, in part, by monitoring medication more closely.