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Increasing age, hospital | 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== | ==Risk factors== | ||
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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
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
- Alcoholism
- Multisystem organ failure
Underlying brain conditions
Precipitating factors
- Hypoxia
- Hypoglycemia
- Poisonings
- Infections
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Prolonged immobility
- Head injury
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure