In the emergency room setting, agitated patients with delirium experience higher rates of hospital admissions and adverse events, researchers say. Agitated patients represent a small but challenging ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of lorazepam to haloperidol reduced symptoms of agitated delirium among individuals with advanced ...

A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...

Droperidol 5 mg reduces the need for rescue sedation more effectively than 10 mg in patients with agitation who visit the emergency department (ED). "In this large cohort of patients in which ...

In this prospective observational study, researchers compared the efficacy of four agents that can be utilized for undifferentiated agitation in the ED. The study was conducted at an inner city level ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – The medical director for Aurora Fire Rescue says the department uses the sedative ketamine on patients who exhibit symptoms of the agitated medical condition excited delirium ...

"We need to find ways to engage frontline staff in the delivery of nonpharmaceutical interventions, including early preferred music, to achieve the goal of safe and effective management of ...

Why didn't Rochester police get inside the ambulance and help EMTs transport an allegedly agitated patient to the hospital? That is a key question for investigators looking into ambulance and police ...

Agitation is the third most common neuropsychiatric symptom observed in patients with dementia, with 30% of patients exhibiting these symptoms; the frequency increases to 80% among patients living in ...

AMSTERDAM — Doctors in the Netherlands are now permitted to sedate patients without their knowledge or consent prior to euthanizing them if there is a chance the patient could “become agitated” as a ...

Unraveling the possible causes and triggers of agitation in people with dementia is worthy of detective work, according to a recent presentation. Witnessing agitation in an older adult struggling with ...

A synthetic cannabis drug used to treat nausea in cancer patients may also help calm agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers reported Tuesday. Agitation is one of the most ...