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Critical care clinics · Jul 2009
ReviewDelirium: an emerging frontier in the management of critically ill children.
- Heidi A B Smith, D Catherine Fuchs, Pratik P Pandharipande, Frederick E Barr, and E Wesley Ely.
- Pediatrics and Anesthesiology Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, 5121 Doctor's Office Tower, 2200 Children's Way, Nashville, TN 37232-9075, USA. heidi.smith@vanderbilt.edu
- Crit Care Clin. 2009 Jul 1; 25 (3): 593x593-614, x.
AbstractThe objectives of this article are (1) to introduce pediatric delirium and provide understanding of acute brain dysfunction with its classification and clinical presentations (2) to understand how delirium is diagnosed and discuss current modes of delirium diagnosis in the critically ill adult population and translation to pediatrics (3) to understand the prevalence and prognostic significance of delirium in the adult and pediatric critically ill population (4) to discuss the pathophysiology of delirium as currently understood, and (5) to provide general management guidelines for delirium.
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