All right, welcome to the IBCC podcast. I'm back again with Adam Thomas.

And today we're going to talk about delirium.

It's not like we see delirium at all.

So we might not really need to cover this too much, do you, Josh?

Yeah, it's not that common.

No, not at all.

I'm going to summarize what we got today and then Josh is going

to hit you up. So contents, we're going to cover the definition diagnosis and you need to have

this clear in your minds. Bad pun. Terrible. Causes evaluation and go over the prevention that everyone

needs to get. Then we'll talk about specific treatment regimes and thank God we have an approach to this

because it's a hodgepodge out there.

Then some algorithms and we'll finish off with the pitfalls.

Josh, why don't you walk me through the definition?

Who's demented?

Who's delirious?

Why is this important?

So delirium is essentially an acute brain dysfunction.

I kind of think about it a little bit like acute kidney injury. It's one of these things that often happens in the ICU. So it's certainly acute.

So this is separate from dementia of folks who are kind of chronically confused. And the hallmarks

are inattention, inability to pay attention, kind of complete tasks necessarily have a conversation.

And another key feature is that folks tend to wax and wanes. So they may be

totally normal one minute and then a couple minutes later, they may be completely hallucinating.

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