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- Provides up-to-date, evidence-based information of relevance to daily clinical practice
- Describes the approach to delirium from a variety of perspectives
- Includes case vignettes, delirium assessment tools, and a list of drugs associated with the disorder
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical account of delirium that will be of value for all doctors and nurses involved in the care of the elderly. It not only offers a state of the art update on delirium, covering its history, epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, causes, prevention, and management, but also presents evidence-based and practical information relevant to daily clinical routine. Owing to the complex multifactorial causes of delirium, different aspects of delirium in the elderly are discussed from a variety of perspectives. The book closes by presenting a series of case vignettes, delirium assessment tools and screening scales, and a list of those drugs highly associated with delirium.
Delirium is a cognitive disorder characterized by deficits in attention, arousal, consciousness, memory, orientation, perception, speech, and language. It is a common and serious problem among older persons at every healthcare interface. Although it occurs in 10–60% of the older hospitalized population, delirium remains a relatively misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition. This book will be of interest to professionals working in geriatrics, geriatric psychiatry, general psychiatry, or neurology, internists, intensive care unit specialists, and all who care for the elderly in hospitals or the community.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geriatric Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Ahmet Turan Isik
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Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
George T. Grossberg
About the editors
Dr. Ahmet Turan ISIK finished his graduation from Gulhane Military Medical Academy in 1995. He received specialist training in internal medicine in 2002 and became a specialist in internal medicine. In 2007, He completed geriatric side branch education and became a geriatrician. He had completed postgraduate studies both in the country and abroad on cognitive disorders and dementia (dementia) syndromes, especially Alzheimer's disease in the ages. He received associate professor position on December 2006 and Professor Title on March 2012. He is currently serving as the Head of the Department of Geriatrics at Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty. He is also director of Unit for Brain Aging and Dementia in the same department. He is also a part-time faculty member at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Eastern Mediterranean University. His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals. He is also author of many internationaland national books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Delirium in Elderly Patients
Editors: Ahmet Turan Isik, George T. Grossberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65239-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65237-5Published: 04 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87982-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65239-9Published: 11 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 139
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Geriatric Psychiatry, Neurology, Primary Care Medicine