From the Pre-Verbal Infant to the Non-Verbal Adult: Increasing Your Delirium Recognition and Treatment Skill Set in Challenging Pediatric and Adult Patients (TH315)

Delirium is highly prevalent in palliative care and at the end of life, and it occurs in patients of all ages, from infants to the elderly. Infants and young children pose a particular challenge in delirium assessment, as they lack the baseline verbal and cognitive skills to participate in the typical mental status assessments used for adults and older verbal children. Non-verbal adults with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and advanced dementia pose similar challenges. This panel (which includes adult and child psychiatrists as well as adult and pediatric hospice and palliative medicine physicians) will focus on the assessment and treatment of delirium in pre-verbal children as well as non-verbal children and adults.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research