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Approximately 30% of patients in surgical ICUs and cardiac ICUs, and 40-50% of patients who are recovering from hip fractures have an episode of delirium [ 1, 22].
Delirium was diagnosed in 90 patients.
While a trial of opioids may be beneficial in the unconscious patient who is difficult to assess, physicians must remember that opioids may accumulate and add to delirium when renal clearance is poor [ 91 92 ] . If the trial of increased opioids does not relieve the agitation, or makes the delirium worse by increasing agitation or precipitating myoclonic jerks or seizures (rare), then pursue alternate therapies directed at suppressing the symptoms associated with delirium.
However, for patients with intrinsic or iatrogenically initiated brain failure, it is exceedingly difficult to monitor the combined effects of delirium and oppressive sedation regimens on neuronal function once visual clues are removed.
The delirium rate is 10-40% in cancer patients [ 23], but increases to 85% in patients with advanced malignancies [ 15].