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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
Risk factors
Risk factors of confusion can be grouped under different categories, one which increase the chances, one due to underlying brain conditions and the one which precipitate confusion.[1]
- Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors
- Hospitalization
- Post surgical recovery
- Admission into intensive care unit
- Drug abuse
Underlying brain conditions
- Stroke
- Parkinson disease
- Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Psychiatric disorders
Precipitating factors
- Hypoxia
- Hypoglycemia
- Poisonings
- Infections
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Prolonged immobility
- Head injury
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure