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{{CMG}} ; {{AE}} {{ADI}} | {{CMG}} ; {{AE}} {{ADI}} | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Increasing age, admission to the hospital, post-surgical status, alcoholism, and underlying brain lesions are common risk factors in the development of confusion. | |||
==Risk | ==Risk Factors== | ||
The risk factors of confusion can be grouped in two main categories; factors which involve underlying brain conditions, and certain conditions which are known to precipitate confusion.<ref name="pmid9541379">{{cite journal |author=Elie M, Cole MG, Primeau FJ, Bellavance F |title=Delirium risk factors in elderly hospitalized patients |journal=J Gen Intern Med |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=204–12 |year=1998 |month=March |pmid=9541379 |pmc=1496920 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
* Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors | * Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors | ||
* Hospitalization | * Hospitalization | ||
* Post surgical recovery | * Post surgical recovery | ||
* Admission into intensive care unit | * Admission into [[intensive care unit]] | ||
* Drug abuse | * [[Drug abuse]] | ||
* | * [[Alcoholism]] | ||
* [[Multisystem organ failure]] | |||
===Underlying Brain Conditions=== | |||
* Stroke | * [[Stroke]] | ||
* Parkinson disease | * [[Parkinson disease]] | ||
* Dementia | * [[Dementia]] | ||
* Epilepsy | * [[Epilepsy]] | ||
* Psychiatric disorders | * [[Psychiatric disorders]] | ||
===Precipitating Factors=== | |||
* Hypoxia | * [[Hypoxia]] | ||
* Hypoglycemia | * [[Hypoglycemia]] | ||
* Poisonings | * [[Poisonings]] | ||
* Infections | * [[Infections]] | ||
* Dehydration | * [[Dehydration]] | ||
* Electrolyte abnormalities | * [[Electrolyte abnormalities]] | ||
* Prolonged immobility | * Prolonged immobility | ||
* Head injury | * [[Head injury]] | ||
* Kidney failure | * [[Kidney failure]] | ||
* Liver failure | * [[Liver failure]] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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{{WS}} | {{WS}} | ||
[[Category:Neurology]] | |||
[[Category:Emergency medicine]] | |||
[[Category:Psychiatry]] | |||
[[Category:Endocrinology]] | |||
[[Category:Intensive care medicine]] | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Govindavarjhulla, M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
Increasing age, admission to the hospital, post-surgical status, alcoholism, and underlying brain lesions are common risk factors in the development of confusion.
Risk Factors
The risk factors of confusion can be grouped in two main categories; factors which involve underlying brain conditions, and certain conditions which are known to precipitate confusion.[1]
- Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors
- Hospitalization
- Post surgical recovery
- Admission into intensive care unit
- Drug abuse
- Alcoholism
- Multisystem organ failure
Underlying Brain Conditions
Precipitating Factors
- Hypoxia
- Hypoglycemia
- Poisonings
- Infections
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Prolonged immobility
- Head injury
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure