Delirium in the Elderly

by Alastair Macdonald and James Lindesay

This book provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical account of delirium for all doctors involved in the care of the elderly. Delirium is defined as an acute or subacute non-specific response of the brain to a wide variety of physical and psychological causes that are nearly always treatable. However, problems arise if the underlying trauma is not identified and corrected, or if the delirious state itself is badly managed or misdiagnosed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192618628
• ISBN13: 9780192618627
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"