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Delirium: Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition | Substance Intoxication Delirium | Substance Withdrawal Delirium | Delirium Due to Multiple Etiologies

• BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: DSM-IV: Delirium - Although classified as a mental disorder because it involves fluctuating level of consciousness and pervasive impairment in mental, behavioral, and emotional functioning, this brain state, which is usually of acute onset and temporary duration, is probably always caused by physical disease, head trauma, or drug effect.

• Delirium - Delirium is a state of mental confusion that develops quickly and usually fluctuates in intensity.

• Delirium - Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition.

• Deliriums Symptoms - The patient has a reduced level of consciousness and difficulty focusing, shifting or sustaining attention.

• Psychiacomp - Delirium - DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria for Delirium

Due to a General Medical Condition

• Deliriums Symptoms - Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition. The patient has a reduced level of consciousness and difficulty focusing, shifting or sustaining attention.

• Is Patient Medically Or Psychiatrically Unstable Or Acutely Intoxicated? - Identify the patient who needs to be stabilized before continuing in the algorithm.

• Mood Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition - Mood Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition is a mood disorder due to direct physiological conditions.

• Psychiacomp - Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition - This terminology is designed to describe psychiatric symptoms that are part of the clinical presentation of a non-psychiatric illness.

Substance Intoxication

• Deliriums Symptoms - Delirium Due to Substance Intoxication. The patient has a reduced level of consciousness and difficulty focusing, shifting or sustaining attention.

• Delirium, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine by Richard Robinson - Delirium is a state of mental confusion which develops quickly and usually fluctuates in intensity.

• IPCS Intox, Delirium - An acute reversible alteration in cognitive function and / or behaviour that occurs as a direct toxic effect of a substance or secondary to some underlying medical condition.

Substance Withdrawal

• Deliriums Symptoms - Criteria for Substance Withdrawal Delirium. The patient has a reduced level of consciousness and difficulty focusing, shifting or sustaining attention.

• Pharmacotherapies for alcohol abuse. Withdrawal and treatment.  - Saitz R, O'Malley SS. Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA.

Due to Multiple Etiologies

• Deliriums Symptoms - Criteria for Delirium Due to Multiple Etiologies. The patient has a reduced level of consciousness and difficulty focusing, shifting or sustaining attention.

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