delirious patient

In our study, 56.7% of delirious patients had hyperactive subtype.

For example, delirious patients with blood infections may be prescribed antipsychotics instead of the antibiotics they desperately need.

He said some people worry that such devices "could potentially be unsafe if they are not monitored carefully in a delirious patient."

Whilst still under medical care he saved the life of a delirious patient who tried to jump out of a window.

Miss Temple was not to be seen: I knew afterwards that she had been called to a delirious patient in the fever-room.

While 81.1% of delirious patients were admitted in an emergency state, the remaining 18.9% was admitted in elective states.

A delirious patient who does not improve when treated with medication should be examined for NMS.

This refers to the involuntary picking or grasping movements sometimes seen in delirious patients in exhaustion, stupor, or high fever.

In a terminally ill delirious patient being cared for at home, the doctor may do a limited assessment to determine the cause or may treat just the symptoms.

In a conscious and delirious patient it will produce very effective but transient reversal of both the peripheral and central effects of cholinergic blocking compounds.

Dysfunctional cognition in the delirious patient hinders communication between patient and family and between patient and health care personnel.

While the common non-medical view of a delirious patient is one who is hallucinating, most people who are medically delirious do not have either hallucinations or delusions.

NMS should be considered in the differential diagnosis of the delirious patient receiving neuroleptic agents who develops rigidity and whose condition does not improve on neuroleptics (e.g., haloperidol).

Delirious patients have diminished comprehension as evidenced by reduced 'grasp' of their surroundings and difficulties in connecting with their immediate environment, executive dysfunction affecting abstraction, initiation/perseveration, switching mental sets, working memory, temporal sequencing and organization, insight and judgment.

Up to that moment the banker had given no sign of life, and I, at least, had supposed him to be still lying in a faint; but he replied at once, and in such tones as I have never heard elsewhere, save from a delirious patient, adjured and besought us not to desert him.