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  2. Confusion Assessment Method - Wikipedia

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    The Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) is a diagnostic tool developed to allow physicians and nurses to identify delirium in the healthcare setting. [1] It was designed to be brief (less than 5 minutes to perform) and based on criteria from the third edition-revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R).

  3. 4AT - Wikipedia

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    The 4 'A's Test (4AT) is a bedside medical scale used to help determine if a person has positive signs for delirium. [1] [2] The 4AT also includes cognitive test items, making it suitable also for use as a rapid test for cognitive impairment.

  4. Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale - Wikipedia

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    It is however mostly used in mechanically ventilated patients in order to avoid over and under-sedation. Obtaining a RASS score is the first step in administering the Confusion Assessment Method in the ICU (CAM-ICU), [4] a tool to detect delirium in intensive care unit patients. The RASS is one of many sedation scales used in medicine.

  5. Emergence delirium - Wikipedia

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    A research study of 400 adult patients emerging from general anesthesia in the PACU were assessed for delirium using the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU) found rates of emergence delirium of 31% at PACU admission with rates declining to 8% by 1 hour. [11]

  6. Abbreviated mental test score - Wikipedia

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    The Abbreviated Mental Test score (AMTS) is a 10-point test for rapidly assessing elderly patients for the possibility of dementia.It was first used in 1972, [1] [2] and is now sometimes also used to assess for mental confusion (including delirium) and other cognitive impairments.

  7. Delirium - Wikipedia

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    Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term which is now discouraged) [1] is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, which usually develops over the course of hours to days.

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    3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.

  9. Category : Mental disorders screening and assessment tools

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    Psychosis screening and assessment tools (5 P) Pages in category "Mental disorders screening and assessment tools" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total.