1. Delirium in heart failure
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Claudia Altamura, Natale Daniele Brunetti, Matteo Di Biase, Michele Correale, Michela Perrella, Lucia Tricarico, Antonello Bellomo, Stefania Malerba, Mario Altamura, Raffaella Carnevale, and Anna Maria Gallotta
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Heart Failure ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Incidence ,health care facilities, manpower, and services ,education ,Delirium ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Global Health ,medicine.disease ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Heart failure ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,business ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
Despite relative frequency of delirium in elderly hospitalized heart failure patients, skills and expertise in managing such complication are usually poor for physicians and nurses facing this clinical condition. International guidelines on heart failure do not provide detailed indication for such clinical condition, and evidence on this topic is limited. A multi-disciplinary approach (cardiologists, internists, geriatricians, psychologists, and psychiatrists) is often required; this review will therefore focus on diagnosis and clinical management of delirium in heart failure patients from a multidisciplinary point of view.
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- 2019