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🌟 New guidance on #delirium management 🌟 👥➡️ Expert consensus via Delphi process 🧠 Covers general wards, ICU, & cardiac surgery wards 📗 Published in the Delirium journal: doi.org/10.56392/001c.… #WDAD2024

🦴 🧠 #Delirium affects 1 in 7 pts presenting with hip fracture ➡️All older pts with hip fracture should be assessed for delirium ✳️on admission✳️ ⚠️ Don't wait until after the op, but do check post-op too 🔗 boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.130… #WDAD2024

You can (almost!) always do a 4AT. Someone not engaging with the 4AT is a poor prognostic marker

🧠 Delirium has been recognised in medicine for >2000 years. 🧠 Hippocrates first described symptoms resembling delirium in his work "Aphorisms" around 400 BC. As we now do, he believed delirium was a symptom of an underlying condition, such as fever or brain disease. He

It is great to see our delirium competition initiative from the previous year being incorporated into the resources for delirium ARTS. Take a look at the winning poems from the delirium competition, aimed at raising awareness of delirium 🫶🏽 #WDAD2025

Today is World Delirium Awareness Day! #Delirium affects millions but often goes unrecognised. Let's all work toward making good delirium care the norm, not the exception. #WDAD2025 #DeliriumAware

Wednesday - WORLD DELIRIUM AWARENESS DAY 🧠 Know the signs | it is everyone’s responsibility* 👀 🎥 vimeo.com/1064262653/041…

THURSDAY - DAY FOUR of delirium awareness 🧠 You don’t know what you don’t know | ask us about delirium* What a productive afternoon raising awareness of delirium among staff, patients and visitors 🫶🏽 Together we can make a difference #WDAD2025 iDelirium American Delirium Society

The term "delirium" has ancient roots, coming from Latin "de lira" (off the furrow/track). First used by Celsus (25 BCE-50 CE) to describe acute mental disturbances with fever. 2000 years later we're still very much on a learning curve to get the basics right.

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