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ICU delirium tests misclassify Spanish-speakers, research suggests

Delirium is common in the ICU, and guidelines call for daily screening. Now a new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference suggests that standard screening tests may result in the ...
Medscape

ICU Delirium Associated With Reduced Survival Rate, Age Plays Crucial Role

Patients who develop delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) show a significantly lower survival probability up to 4 years post-discharge than those without delirium, according to a new study.
Becker's Hospital Review

Healing ICU Delirium with VoiceLove: The Power of Connection

Delirium affects 10-30% of hospitalized patients and up to 80% of ICU patients. Triggered by trauma, unfamiliar environments, and medications, it can lead to aggression, prolonged hospital stays, ...
Forbes

Could Music Reduce The Odds Of ICU Delirium? A New Trial Will Find Out

As if staying in an intensive care unit isn’t traumatizing enough, a large proportion of people treated in ICUs develop delirium. Hallucinations make their hospital stay more traumatizing, and can ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Returning to a Humanistic Approach of Preventing Delirium in the ICU

In the Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture in Critical Care at CHEST 2022, E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, highlights the need for humanism in the intensive care ...
MedPage Today

Haloperidol for ICU Delirium Misses on Hard Endpoints

Intensive care unit (ICU) patients who received haloperidol (Haldol) for delirium fared no better on the AID-ICU trial's primary outcome at 3 months than those who received placebo. At 90 days, the ...
Science Daily

Study uses design features of the ICU to evaluate delirium

ICU delirium can be associated with a multitude of factors including underlying and acute medical conditions, pharmacologic agents or treatment regimens like surgery. Currently there is no definitive ...
Healio

Q&A: Machine learning models predict risk for delirium in the ICU

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . By training artificial intelligence, or AI, algorithms with electronic health record data, researchers ...
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ICU room design impacts delirium: Windowed rooms show higher incidence

Delirium is characterized by an acute change in cognition, accompanied by either altered consciousness or disorganized thinking. The condition is common in the post-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) ...
The Washington Post

Hospitals fight a form of delirium that often strikes ICU patients

Two weeks after her son Brian was born, in December 2006, Angela Johnson ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. After a lung was punctured during a draining procedure, she was moved to the ...
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ICU delirium tests misclassify Spanish-speakers

ATS 2025, San Francisco – Delirium is common in the ICU, and guidelines call for daily screening. Now a new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference suggests that standard screening ...