Delirium - Sanjay Manohar's Medical Browser
Synonyms
- Confusion
- Acute confusional state
- Acute organic cognitive disturbance
Causes
Effects
Parents
Children
Description
- "Hardly ever due to primary CNS dysfunction..
acute potentially life-threatening disorder.
Distinguished from psychosis
- in which consciousness and cognition not impaired.
Distinguishd from dementia which is chronic and without altered sensorium."