Comments on: Why it Matters http://www.icudelirium.co.uk Combating Delirium in ICU Patients Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Valerie Page http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-6007 Valerie Page Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:17:34 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-6007 I do believe that there is hope for our patients even now as increasingly delirium is recognised for what it is instead of being accepted as inevitable or thought to be benign. We haven't quite reached the tipping point (ala M Gladwell) but we will triumph! I do believe that there is hope for our patients even now as increasingly delirium is recognised for what it is instead of being accepted as inevitable or thought to be benign. We haven’t quite reached the tipping point (ala M Gladwell) but we will triumph!

]]> By: Anne Kramer http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-5989 Anne Kramer Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:47:07 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-5989 "Your patient after leaving ITU is unable to return to anything like the life they enjoyed before." Definitely true! I am a nurse and it saddens me whenever we have a patient like this. It hurts our feelings to see them getting out of the hospital with no hope to enjoy their life ever again. I guess we just have to deal with that nature. Anne Kramer Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learn-How-Blow-Glass-Instructions/dp/0986642606/" rel="nofollow">Learn How Blow Glass Instructions</a> book “Your patient after leaving ITU is unable to return to anything like the life they enjoyed before.”

Definitely true! I am a nurse and it saddens me whenever we have a patient like this. It hurts our feelings to see them getting out of the hospital with no hope to enjoy their life ever again. I guess we just have to deal with that nature.

Anne Kramer
Author of Learn How Blow Glass Instructions book

]]> By: Amiel Sac http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-2147 Amiel Sac Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:52:57 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-2147 Wow! Thanks for that very abrupt reply Val! I hope to hear more on this topic from you. I am a psychology student and these works will really be of great use to me. Thank you again! Amiel <a href="http://www.hookahset.com/" rel="nofollow">Shisha Guy</a> Hookah Set: Real Taste of Adventure Wow! Thanks for that very abrupt reply Val!
I hope to hear more on this topic from you. I am a psychology student and these works will really be of great use to me.

Thank you again!

Amiel
Shisha Guy
Hookah Set: Real Taste of Adventure

]]> By: Valerie Page http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-2140 Valerie Page Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:28:37 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-2140 A couple of useful papers outlining the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive impairment: Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness. TD Girard, JC Jackson, PP Pandharipande et al. Critical Care Medicine 2010; 38: 1513-191 Delirium and long-term cognitive impairment. Alasdair MacLullich, Anna Beaglehole, Roanna Hall and David Meagher. International Review of Psychiatry 2009; 21: 30-42. Thanks Valerie A couple of useful papers outlining the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive impairment:
Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness.
TD Girard, JC Jackson, PP Pandharipande et al. Critical Care Medicine 2010; 38: 1513-191
Delirium and long-term cognitive impairment. Alasdair MacLullich, Anna Beaglehole, Roanna Hall and David Meagher. International Review of Psychiatry 2009; 21: 30-42.
Thanks Valerie

]]> By: Amiel Sac http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-2138 Amiel Sac Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:01:30 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-2138 "Investigations into the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes have consistently demonstrated a link." Wow! This is amazing. But if it's not too much to ask, can you cite the specific studies that yielded such findings? Thanks. Amiel <a href="http://www.hookahset.com/" rel="nofollow">Shisha Guy</a> Hookah Set: Real Taste of Adventure “Investigations into the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes have consistently demonstrated a link.”

Wow! This is amazing. But if it’s not too much to ask, can you cite the specific studies that yielded such findings? Thanks.

Amiel
Shisha Guy
Hookah Set: Real Taste of Adventure

]]> By: Leanne http://www.icudelirium.co.uk/why-it-matters/#comment-2024 Leanne Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:44:42 +0000 http://pc-01/?page_id=7#comment-2024 "Investigations into the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes have consistently demonstrated a link. Emerging data indicates delirium may lead to or accelerate dementia" This is real bad. Dementia is not something very pleasant. thanks leanne my blog: <a href="http://www.luminessairreviewed.com/luminess-air" rel="nofollow">Luminess Air</a> “Investigations into the relationship between delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes have consistently demonstrated a link. Emerging data indicates delirium may lead to or accelerate dementia”

This is real bad. Dementia is not something very pleasant.

thanks
leanne
my blog: Luminess Air

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