Acute confusion
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Acute confusion

Abby Morrow-Barnes Staff nurse, Warwick Hospital

A CPD article enhanced Abby Morrow-Barnes’s understanding of delirium, its many symptoms and underlying causes

Acute confusion, an acute cognitive impairment associated with severe illness, is often termed delirium. Delirium seldom resolves steadily but goes through cycles of improving and then worsening.

Nursing Standard. 28, 50, 61-61. doi: 10.7748/ns.28.50.61.s48

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