Senile delirium

The common cognitive disorder in the elderly in psychopathology is senile delirium, also known as acute confusion. Presented as a transient organic brain syndrome of attention, feeling, thinking, memory, psychomotor and sleep cycle disorders. Often accompanied by physical illness, severe infectious disease, toxic disease, organic lesions of the brain, during or after surgery. When the elderly suffer from acute diseases, they often use fuzzy consciousness instead of fever and pain as the main symptoms. It is not only a manifestation of systemic and brain organic lesions, but also aggravates the patient's condition and burdens the family. Bringing treatment and care complexity to medical staff. Senile delirium plays an important role in determining the severity of brain dysfunction and primary disease.

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