Delirium in the elderly in intensive care units: an integrative literature review

Delirium em idosos em unidades de terapia intensiva: revisão integrativa da literatura
Delirium en ancianos en unidades de cuidados intensivos: revisión integradora de la literatura
[journal article]

Abstract

Objective: conducting a survey about delirium in the elderly in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: an integrative review of the literature held in databases MEDLINE and IBECS, in May 2012, whose inclusion criteria were: to be published between May 2007 to May 2012, available in full and in Port... view more

Objective: conducting a survey about delirium in the elderly in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: an integrative review of the literature held in databases MEDLINE and IBECS, in May 2012, whose inclusion criteria were: to be published between May 2007 to May 2012, available in full and in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Results: there were found 68 productions and selected 16, which were categorized into: 1) Incidence and prevalence of delirium in the elderly in ICU; 2) Factors predisposing and precipitating risk of delirium in the elderly in ICU and 3) Strategies for preventing modifiable risk factors of delirium in the elderly patients in the ICU. Conclusion: the scientific production about delirium is incipient in Brazil, health professionals, especially nurses, need to improving the recognition of this syndrome and implementing strategies for risk prevention factors for delirium.... view less

Keywords
elderly; intensive care medicine; hospital; mortality; risk; prophylaxis

Classification
Medicine, Social Medicine

Free Keywords
Delirium; Intensive care units

Document language
English

Publication Year
2015

Page/Pages
p. 2738-2748

Journal
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 7 (2015) 3

DOI
https://doi.org/10.9789/2175-5361.2015.v7i3.2738-2748

ISSN
2175-5361

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0