Up to one-third of older adults staying in the hospital can develop a condition called delirium. It is especially common in people age 65 and older.

As her condition worsened, she developed delirium -- fluctuating between moments of lucidity and profound confusion. Alone in ...

Electroencephalography (EEG)-guided management of general anesthesia in children ages 1 to 5 years reduced pediatric ...

EEG-guided anesthesia reduces the incidence of pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium and shortens recovery time by over 20 ...

At UCSF Parnassus Campus, medical personnel go into work with a mission every day to prevent delirium - or hospital confusion - among patients. Here's how.

A study in mice suggests that senescent cells are at least partially responsible for post-surgical delirium and similar ...

With the recent rapid increase in life expectancy and the advancement of anesthesia technology, the demand for general ...

Postoperative delirium is a common and serious complication affecting older surgical patients, often leading to prolonged hospital stays, increased need for long-term care, and a higher likelihood ...

Forty patients (24%) developed postoperative delirium, and these patients had displayed a greater mean macular thickness (283.35 µm) of the right eye at their preoperative assessment than the ...

Results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial in Japan among more than 170 children aged 1 to 6 who underwent surgery ...