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Delirium is caused by variety of causes but likelihood of having delirium depends on various risk factors. | Delirium is caused by variety of causes but likelihood of having delirium depends on various risk factors. | ||
==Risk Factors== | ==Risk Factors== | ||
* | ===Modifiable Risk Factors=== | ||
* Cognitive | *Sensory impairment (hearing or vision) | ||
* | *Immobilization (catheters or restraints) | ||
* | *Offending drugs (for example, sedative hypnotics, narcotics, anticholinergic drugs, corticosteroids, polypharmacy, withdrawal of alcohol or other drugs) | ||
* | *Acute neurological pathology (for example, acute stroke [usually right parietal], intracranial hemorrhage, meningitis, enkephalitis) | ||
* | *Intercurrent illness (for example, infections, iatrogenic complications, severe acute illness, anemia, dehydration, poor nutritional status, fracture or trauma, HIV infection) | ||
*Metabolic impairment | |||
*Surgery | |||
*Stressful surroundings (for example, admission to an intensive care unit) | |||
*Pain | |||
*Emotional stress | |||
*Lack of sleep | |||
===Non-Modifiable Risk Factors=== | |||
*Cognitive impairment | |||
*Older age (>65 years) | |||
*History of delirium, stroke, neurological disease, falls or gait disorder | |||
*Associating multiple medical aliments | |||
*Gender: Male over females | |||
*Renal or hepatic pathology<ref>{{Cite web | last = | first = | title = Delirium in elderly adults: diagnosis, prevention and treatment | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065676/ | publisher = | date = | accessdate = }}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist|2}} | {{Reflist|2}} | ||
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Overview
Delirium is caused by variety of causes but likelihood of having delirium depends on various risk factors.
Risk Factors
Modifiable Risk Factors
- Sensory impairment (hearing or vision)
- Immobilization (catheters or restraints)
- Offending drugs (for example, sedative hypnotics, narcotics, anticholinergic drugs, corticosteroids, polypharmacy, withdrawal of alcohol or other drugs)
- Acute neurological pathology (for example, acute stroke [usually right parietal], intracranial hemorrhage, meningitis, enkephalitis)
- Intercurrent illness (for example, infections, iatrogenic complications, severe acute illness, anemia, dehydration, poor nutritional status, fracture or trauma, HIV infection)
- Metabolic impairment
- Surgery
- Stressful surroundings (for example, admission to an intensive care unit)
- Pain
- Emotional stress
- Lack of sleep
Non-Modifiable Risk Factors
- Cognitive impairment
- Older age (>65 years)
- History of delirium, stroke, neurological disease, falls or gait disorder
- Associating multiple medical aliments
- Gender: Male over females
- Renal or hepatic pathology[1]