Educational interventions and promotion of changes in the practices of prevention and monitoring of delirium in critical patient

It was with great interest that we read the study by Johnson et al. (2016), published in the Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Journal. Delirium has been widely explored in the last couple of decades for being a common neuro-behavioral disorder in critically ill patients and proven to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes such as increase of morbidity, mortality, ICU and hospitalisation time and neuro-cognitive impairment after discharge from the critical unit (Barr et al., 2013; Witlox et al., 2010).

Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 4, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: T ássia Nery Faustino, Larissa Chaves Pedreira, Rosana Freitas Azevedo Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research