General Information About Delirium
Psychiatric Management
Enviromental And Supportive Interventions/Som
Formulation and Implementation of a Treatment
Random Information on Delirium
100
Delirium is the same as Dementia
False
100
True or False: Psychiatric Management involves one task that a psychiatrist will attempt on some patients with delirium.
False: Psychiatric Management involves and array of tasks that the psychiatrist should seek to ensure are performed for all patients with delirium.
100
What intervention includes "a specific array of interventions by nursing, psychological, general medical, and psychiatric staff that can be broadly categorized"
Environmental intervention
100
AIDS/HIV and Liver disease falls under _______ ________ type of medical conditions
Comorbid General
100
What gender "appears to be an independent risk factor for delirium in elderly individuals?"
Male
200
What is an associated feature of Delirium?
Disturbance of sleep, psychomotor activity, and emotions
200
What is an essential principle in the psychiatric management of delirium?
Identification and correction of the etiologic factors
200
True or False: Vitamins are not a part of Somatic Interventions.
False
200
What is the "cornerstone of successful treatment for delirium and should be implemented for all patients with delirium?"
Psychiatric Management
200
Which age groups are "suspectible" to delirium?
Children and elderly
300
Name one criteriafor delirium.
Disturbance of consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention; a change in cognition or the development of a perceptual disturbance that is not better accounted for by a pre-existing, established, or evolving dementia; and the disturbance develops over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate during the course of the day
300
What is the domain that uses interviews and cognitive tests measures?
The Mental Status domain
300
Name the 3 types of Environmental and supportive Interventions.
Environmental intervention, structure and support for the patient, and support and education for the family.
300
Name 2 of the 3 clinical features that influence treatment.
Comordid psychiatric disorders, comorbid general medical conditions, and advance age
300
What disease is often confused with delirium?
Dementia
400
The disturbance develops over a ___________ period of time.
Short
400
True or False: Educating patients and families regarding delirium is a part of Psychiatric Management.
True
400
What is a "general goal" of environmental intervention?
To reduce environmental factors that exacerbate delirium, confusion, and misperception while providing familiarity and an optimal level of environmental stimulation.
400
True or False: The presence or diagnosis of delirium does not in itself mean that a patient is incompetent or lacks capacity to give informed consent.
True
400
What is the pervalence percentage range for individuals hospitalized with delirium?
10% to 30%
500
What are the different types of delirium?
Delirium due to a general medical condition, substance-induced delirium, delirium due to multiple etiologies, and delirium not otherwise specified.
500
Name 3 of the task in psychiatric management.
Coordinate with other physicians caring for the patient, identify the etiology, initiate the etiology, initiate interventions for acute conditions, provide other disorder-specific treatment; monitor and ensure safety, assess and monitor psychiatric status, assess individual and family psychological and social characteristics, establishand maintain alliances, educate patient and famil regarding the illness, and provide postdelirium management
500
Name 2 Somatic Interventions?
Antipsychotics, Benzodiazepines, Cholinergics, Vitamins, Morphine and paralysis, ECT
500
Name the 3 aspects of the 'Formulation and Implementation of a Treatment Plan.'
Psychiatric management, choice of specific environmental and supportive interventions, and choice of somatic intervention
500
What type of underlyed condition includes head trauma, seizures, postictal state, vascular disease, and degenerative disease?
Central nervous system disorder
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