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01-10-2021 | SARS-CoV-2 | COVID-19 in Intensive Care

Delirium in COVID-19: can we make the unknowns knowns?

Authors: M. Elizabeth Wilcox, Manu Shankar-Hari, Daniel F. McAuley

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2021

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Delirium is an important public health problem. It is independently associated with worse clinical outcomes, including persistent cognitive impairment, increased mortality, and greater risk of institutionalization [1]. The prevalence of delirium is high in the intensive care unit (ICU), occurring in up to 70% of the sickest patients requiring mechanical ventilation [1]. Early studies in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) report delirium rates of 20–30%, which increase to 60–70% in severe illness [1]. An international multicenter cohort study that included 69 adult ICUs across 14 countries of 2088 COVID-19 patients reported that over a 21-day period, delirium had a prevalence of 55% and lasted a median of 3 days (IQR, 2–6 days) [2], which is more common and prolonged than that in non-COVID cohorts. …

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Title: Delirium in COVID-19: can we make the unknowns knowns?
Authors: M. Elizabeth Wilcox
Manu Shankar-Hari
Daniel F. McAuley
Publication date: 01-10-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2021
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06467-2

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