1. Implementing Delirium Prevention in the Era of COVID-19
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Jennifer Melara, Daniel Ortiz, Mariam Mufti, Duke Lim, Catherine C. Price, Eric I. Rosenberg, Suzanne T. Maye, and Nila S. Radhakrishnan
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Future studies ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Isolation (health care) ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,Medicine ,Dementia ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Cognitive stimulation ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Outcome measures ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Delirium ,Medical team ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Patients admitted with COVID-19 can develop delirium due to predisposing factors, isolation, and the illness itself. Standard delirium prevention methods focus on interaction and stimulation. It can be challenging to deliver these methods of care in COVID settings where it is necessary to increase patient isolation. This paper presents a typical clinical vignette of representative patients in a tertiary care hospital and how a medical team modified an evidence-based delirium prevention model to deliver high-quality care to COVID-19 patients. The implemented model focuses on four areas of delirium-prevention: Mobility, Sleep, Cognitive Stimulation, and Nutrition. Future studies will be needed to track quantitative outcome measures.
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- 2021