Sotolongo AO, Domínguez SSP

Language: Spanish
References: 31
Page: 187-195
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the Acute confusion syndrome or Delirium is an organic cerebral syndrome with multi causal aetiology characterized fluctuating disorder of consciousness, attention, perception, thinking and memory, with increment or reduction of psychomotor activity and a cycle dream-wakefulness.
Objective: to characterize the elder with delirium according to age, gender and clinical manifestation as well as identify the main original causes.
Material and Methods: a descriptive trial including patient with 60 year old and elder attended to the Internal Medicine outpatient consult showing clinical manifestation of Delirium from January to December 2012. Information was obtained from the appointment list as well as the forms previously designed. The study´s Universe was 894 patients and the sample included 43 patients. Variables studied were: age, sex, clinical manifestation, lab test and causes that provoking Delirium. From the Excel 2007 calculation sheet were determined the frequency by sex of the studied variables.
Results: there is an increasing number of Delirium associated to the age factor mainly represented by female, the main referred clinical symptom were related to the motor activity, memory disorder, language, hallucination and obnubilation.
Conclusion: the diagnosis of this entity is clinical and it is prove by complementary test.

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