Powerful drugs that have been used for decades to treat delirium are ineffective for that purpose, according to a study published online Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Antipsychotic ...

Receiving care in the intensive care unit is a physically and mentally taxing experience, particularly for patients who develop delirium, a psychotic reaction or intense confusion, and the usual ...

Rates of delirium for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) have skyrocketed in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, said Brenda Truman Pun, DNP, RN, director of data quality, ...

Two dynamic analytics models developed at Johns Hopkins University predicted delirium-prone patients when tested on two datasets drawn from 100,000 stays at a Boston hospital's intensive care unit, ...

Intensive care unit (ICU) patients who received haloperidol (Haldol) for delirium fared no better on the AID-ICU trial's primary outcome at 3 months than those who received placebo. At 90 days, the ...

Richard Langford, at home in East Nashville, Tenn., still has significant trouble with mental focus and memory issues 10 years after a sudden and serious infection landed him in the hospital ICU for ...

As if staying in an intensive care unit isn’t traumatizing enough, a large proportion of people treated in ICUs develop delirium. Hallucinations make their hospital stay more traumatizing, and can ...

If you are one of the 5.7 million Americans who ends up in the intensive care unit each year, you are at high risk of developing long-term mental effects like dementia and confusion. These mental ...

A major study published Monday finds that widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium. (Nehru Sulejmanovski/Getty Images) Powerful ...

Doctors have gradually come to realize that people who survive a serious brush with death in the intensive care unit are likely to develop potentially serious problems with their memory and thinking ...