Avaliação do delirium

Última revisão: 3 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 04 Mar 2025

Resumo

Differentials

Common

  • Demência
  • Dor
  • Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) e ataque isquêmico transitório
  • Infarto do miocárdio
  • Infecção sistêmica aguda
  • Hipoglicemia
  • Hiperglicemia
  • Hipóxia
  • Hipercapnia
  • Obstrução urinária aguda
  • Relacionada a medicamentos ou substâncias ilícitas
  • Cetoacidose alcoólica
  • Encefalopatia hepática
  • Insuficiência renal
  • Hipernatremia
  • Hiponatremia
  • Hipercalcemia
  • Meningite/encefalite
  • Tumor cerebral
  • Estado pós-ictal
  • Desidratação (depleção de volume)
  • Constipação
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Uncommon

  • Traumatismo cranioencefálico traumático
  • Crise adrenal
  • Tireotoxicose
  • Coma mixedematoso
  • Abscesso cerebral
  • Neurossífilis
  • Encefalopatia de Wernicke
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Contributors

Authors

Margaret Pisani, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven

CT

Disclosures

MP declares that she has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Margaret Pisani would like to gratefully acknowledge David M. Dosa, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

DMD declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Marquis Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor and Associate Dean for Nursing Science Studies

College of Nursing

University of Illinois at Chicago

IL

Disclosures

MF declares that he has no competing interests.

Andrew Parfitt, MBBS, FFAEM

Clinical Director

Acute Medicine

Associate Medical Director

Consultant Emergency Medicine

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead and Consultant

Accident Emergency Medicine

St Thomas' Hospital

London

UK

Disclosures

AP declares that he has no competing interests.

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References

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Key articles

Devlin JW, Skrobik Y, Gélinas C, et al; American College of Critical Care Medicine. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2018 Sep;46(9):e825-73.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care. Jan 2023 [internet publication].Full text  Abstract

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th ed., text revision (DSM-5-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2022

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