End-of-Life Delirium: Issues Regarding Recognition, Optimal Management, and the Role of Sedation in the Dying Phase - Bush, Shirley H.; Leonard, Maeve M.; Agar, Meera; Spiller, Juliet A.; Hosie, Annmarie; Wright, David Kenneth; Meagher, David J.; Currow, David C.; Bruera, Eduardo; Lawlor, Peter G. (Journal of pain and symptom management, 2014)
Keywords: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Anesthesia; Biological and medical sciences; delirium; Delirium - diagnosis; Delirium - drug therapy; end of life; hospice; Humans; Hypnotics and Sedatives - therapeutic use; Medical sciences; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Pain Medicine; Palliative care; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; sedation; terminal; Terminal Care - methods; Terminology as Topic; Palliative care; end of life; terminal; hospice; sedation; delirium; Delirium; Clinical management; Palliative care unit; Sedation; Mental confusion; Organic mental disorder