Delirium care, science and lived experience
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The patient still has delirium. What needs attention today? Five questions for reviewing causes, recovery, distress, complications and the shared plan.
Delirium care involves three main pillars: detection, treatment, and prevention. In this blog I provide a concise guide to the fundamentals of delirium care in adults outside of ICU settings.
What are your tool completion rates? What level of delirium are the tools detecting, and do they reflect the real rates of delirium? Only by closely measuring what we are doing can we tell if our hospitals are truly delirium-sensitive.
We need to look at two processes (1) detection of delirium at first presentation, during care transitions, and at other times when delirium is first suspected, and (2) monitoring for new-onset delirium in inpatients. What approaches might be considered?