Background: Delirium as a clinical syndrome, if not diagnosed in time and not well treated, has a negative impact on the outcomes of intensive care patients. Despite its significance and occurrence, delirium continues to be detected at the lowest level. The purpose of this study was to determine whether intensive care unit nurses in Iraq are knowledgeable of delirium and can recognize it. Meth...

Purpose: This is an analysis of the experiences nurses in Post Anesthesia Care Units (PACUs) caring for older patients with emergence delirium using Q-methodology. Methods: The Q-methodology, which used to explore and understand human subjectivity, was applied. Thirty who had providing nursing after surgery a PACU participated this study. Results: study revealed three factors regarding frame re...

Dexmedetomidine is a highly specific and selective alpha-2-adrenergic agonist with sedative, anxiolytic, and organ protective effects. Its clinical applications in children include premedication, prevention of emergence delirium, as part of multimodal anesthetic regimen and sedation in the pediatric intensive care unit. Its role in neuroprotection in children undergoing anesthesia should be exp...

background and purpose: delirium is a clinical syndrome with cognitive disorder, which occurs within a short time in the admitted patients, specially the elderly. regarding the fact that one third of the delirium incidences is preventable, applying nursing preventive measures is an issue of fundamental importance. the present study aimed to perform a systematic review over the nursing preventiv...

Sir, the emergence of H7N9 bird flu in China presents an interesting situation1. The World Health Organization notes the importance of monitoring this situation for a potential worldwide pandemic2. In terms of the disease, H7N9 bird flu is an atypical influenza virus infection and the drug treatment is oseltamivir. There is great concern surrounding the adverse effects of oseltamivir. “Delirium...

We evaluated the initial and final diagnosis of 80 patients with delirium arriving at the emergence unit of a university hospital in a large Brazilian city over a period of 30 months up to December 1991. The diagnosis was based on the DSM-IIIR criteria. Patients with a known history of head trauma or epileptic seizure and patients younger than 13 years were excluded. Only patients with a diseas...

THE events taking place as a patient emerges from anaesthesia are not well understood and several theories have been advanced to explain the phenomena that occur during this period. However, their exact cause will probably not be found as long as the basic mechanisms of anaesthesia are not entirely clear. A small number of clinical facts are, nevertheless, well established; an example is the we...

Shari M. Burns is a certified registered nurse anesthetist who works in the Phoenix metropolitan area. She received her BSN at the University of Arizona and her MSN in critical care nursing at Loyola University of Chicago. After working 10 years as a critical care nurse, she obtained her certification in nurse anesthesia with the US Air Force. are anxious about surgical findings and outcomes. P...