OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the dimensions of agitation in dementia patients using the Turkish version of the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI-T). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 100 patients diagnosed as dementia, according to the DSM-IV-TR. The CMAI-T was administered to the patients' caregivers via face-to-face interviews. The Standardized Mini Ment...

Agitation is a significant problem in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), affecting 71% of sedated adult patients during 58% of ICU patient-days. Subjective scale based assessment-methods focused primarily on assessing excessive patient motion are currently used to assess the level of patient agitation, but are limited in their accuracy and resolution. This research quantifies this approach by devel...

OBJECTIVES To identify the incidence and the risk factors of emergence agitation in adults undergoing general anesthesia for nasal surgery. METHODS We retrospectively examined 792 patients aged ≥18 years who underwent general anesthesia for elective nasal surgery between July 2012 and August 2013. Patients in the postanesthesia care unit with a Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale≥+1 at any time...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relative effect of different types of stimuli on agitated behaviors of nursing home residents with dementia. DESIGN Repeated-measures design with randomized assignment of conditions. SETTING Seven Maryland nursing homes. PARTICIPANTS One hundred eleven nursing home residents with a diagnosis of dementia who exhibited agitation. INTERVENTION Different types of st...

Background Agitation is a frequent complication in critically ill adults, can result in life-threatening events for patients or care providers, and extends the hospital length of stay, thereby increasing hospital costs. Objectives To describe the incidence, onset, and temporal factors related to agitation in critically ill adults. Methods Data were collected for the first 5 days of stay of all ...

abstract emergence agitation that has been first described by eckenhoff et al. in 1960’s is a dissociated state of consciousness in which the child is inconsolable, irritable, uncooperative, typically thrashing, crying, moaning or incoherent. it is also a common problem in pediatric postanesthetic care unit with an incidence ranging from 10 to 80%. this literature review focused on presence of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) contains variable response-stimulus intervals (RSI). Our goal is to investigate the effect of RSI on performance to determine whether sleep deprivation affects the ability to attend to events across seconds and whether this effect is independent of impairment in sustaining attention across minutes, as measured by time on task. DESIGN A con...

UNLABELLED Emergence agitation is a frequent complication that can have serious consequences during recovery from general anesthesia. However, agitation has been poorly investigated in patients after craniotomy. In this prospective cohort study, adult patients were enrolled after elective craniotomy for brain tumor. The sedation-agitation scale was evaluated during the first 12 hours after surg...