In her job as a physician at the Boston Medical Center, Sondra Crosby treated some of the first people in her region to get COVID. So when she began feeling sick in April 2020, Crosby wasn’t surprised ...

Delirium is a type of confusion that develops suddenly—over the course of hours or days—and most commonly affects older adults who are hospitalized or in a long-term care facility. “We refer to ...

When health care workers finally removed the ventilator tube from Jesse Vanderhoof’s throat, he managed to eke out two weak words: “Call Emily.” Vanderhoof, a 40-year-old nurse with coronavirus, was ...

Delirium is a sudden change in a person’s mental function. This can include their ways of thinking, behavior, or level of consciousness. Medical professionals do not yet fully understand delirium, but ...

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 4: Staff nurse Judith Marini checks an elderly man's IV in the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital October 4, 2002. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) I recently visited a ...

Delirium is a serious but often treatable condition that can happen suddenly to someone who is unwell. It’s much more common in older people, especially those with dementia. Delirium is a change in a ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Brooks Walsh hadn't questioned whether "excited delirium syndrome" was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...

The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality, disproportionately against Black people, has circulated in the medical canon for more than 25 years. It ...