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In conjunction with World Delirium Awareness Day on March 16, 2022, the International Federation of Delirium Societies launched two new delirium journals. Delirium and Delirium Communications are official online publications of The International Federation of Delirium Societies – the European Delirium Association, the American Delirium Society, and the Australasian Delirium...

The Division of Geriatric Medicine’s Lindsay Wilson, MD, and Pulmonary Critical Care Physician and Geriatrician Adrian Austin, MD, MCSR, will present “Antipsychotics and Delirium Prevention” on Thursday 2/14 for Department of Medicine Grand Rounds.

Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician and Geriatrician Dr. Adrian Austin's and Division of Geriatric Medicine Chief Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead’s study on pre-operative cognitive impairment, post-operative delirium, and longterm cognitive function after non-emergent surgery is the lead article in a recently published issue of JAMA Surgery. Read more

"In my residency, I had a lot of critical care and geriatrics time. Many patients were delirious, and it complicated the management of just about everything. I started thinking about delirium and what we should be doing about it. Back then, people didn’t call it delirium. Patients were just ‘confused.’...