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Case 2 - Dementia and Delirium/poor swallow/care planning Flashcards

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How to establish baseline of pt and trajectory over last 12 months?

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  • Collateral history
  • Abbreviated mental test
  • Mental state examination - anxiety, depression
  • Medication review
  • RF review
  • 4AT test for delirium
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Likely causes of poor oral intake in elderly

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  • Dementia - forgetting to eat
  • Immobility - cannot cook, rely on others
  • End of life?
  • Choking/poor swallow - unpleasant
  • Pain
  • N + V
  • Decreased taste
  • Dentures/poor chewing
  • Slower gastric emptying
  • Depression
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Types of fluid consistencies recommended by SALT

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  • Thin
  • Slightly thick
  • Mildly thick
  • Moderately thick (same as liquidised food)
  • Extremely thick (same as pureed food)
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Types of food consistencies recommended by SALT

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  • Liquidised
  • Pureed
  • Minced and moist
  • Soft and bitesize
  • Regular
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Are alternative feeding methods eg NG tube or PEG recommended in dementia and why?

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No
* Risk of aspirational pneumonia higher
* Unpleasant to have NG tube
* PEG needs sedative/anaesthesia - risk
* Infection risk PEG
* Sores around tubes can result in pt trying to pull out
* Into hopsital for PEG insertion - distressing and may not recover to baseline

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What does feed at risk mean?

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  • Continue to eat and drink despite risk of choking/aspiration
  • QoL is priority - eg advanced illness, swallowing unlikely to improve, tube feeding declined or unsuitable
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What is mental capacity?

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  • Ability to understand, retain, weigh up and communicate information
  • Determines if pt can make decision or if we need to act in best interests
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What is a best interest decision?

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  • Decision made when pt does not have capacity
  • Takes into account patients previous and present wishes, beliefs, history and social history
  • Consult others and act in a way which is best for the patient
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What is an advance care plan?

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  • Plan for future care and support inc medical treatment
  • For people at risk of losing capacity or those who have fluctuating capacity
  • Takes into account feelings, wishes history, ceiling of care, place to be treated etc
  • Ask if informed family
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What is a RESPECT form?

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  • Recommended summary plan emergency care and treatment
  • Takes into account patient preferences of care - priorities over preserving life vs comfort
  • Clinical recommendations
  • DNACPR?
  • Discuss current health and how this may change and treatments which won’t probably work etc
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What is delirium?

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  • Acute confusional state
  • Sudden onset
  • Fluctuating symptoms
  • Develops over 1-2 days
  • Hyper or hypoalert and inattention
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Cause of delirium

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  • Underlying medical problem
  • Substance intoxication
  • Substance withdrawal
  • Or combination
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Who is delirium common in?

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  • Older persons admitted to hopsital
  • Frailer
  • Sensory impairment
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Surgery
  • Hip fractures
  • Severe infections
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Important things to exclude as causes of delirium

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  • Infection
  • Electrolyte imbalance
  • Hypoxia
  • Drugs inc opiates
  • Urinary retention
  • Constipation
  • Uncontrolled pain
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How long does delirium take to resolve?

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  • Anywhere up to 3 months
  • Some people do not get back to baseline
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Complications/risks of delirium

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  • Increased mortality
  • Prolonged hospital stay
  • Higher complication rates
  • Instiutionalisation
  • Increase risk of developing dementia
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Management delirium

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  • Supportive care
  • Treat underlying cause
  • Orientate to time and place always
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When to use pharmacological management delirium?

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Extreme cases where patient is at risk to themselves or others

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What does 4AT assessment involve?

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  • Alertness - sleepy or alert
  • AMT4 - age, DOB, place, current year
  • Attention - please tell me months of year backwards from december
  • Acute change or fluctuating - over last 2 weeks has cognition fluctuated
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Pharamcological management - ONLY IF AT RISK - for delirium

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  • Haloperidol - oral and then IM if not
  • Lorazepam if have dementia
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Types of delirium

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  • Hyperactive - agitated and confused
  • Hypoactive - withdrawn and drowsy
  • Mixed
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How to distinguish between delirium and dementia?

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Collateral history
4AT test useful too

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What is dementia?

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Progressive decline in cognitive function usually ocurring over several months
Affects different areas inc:
* retention of new information
* managing complex tasks
* language and word finding difficulty
* behaviour
* orientation
* recognition
* ability to self care
* reasoning

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Types of dementia

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  • Alzheimers
  • Vascular
  • Dementia with Lewy body
  • Parkinsons disease with dementia
  • Frontotemporal
  • Mixed - Alzheimers and Vascular
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Alzheimers dementia presention

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  • Most common cause
  • Insidious onset (slowly)
  • Slow progression
  • Behavioural problems common
  • Diagnosed with history but brain imaging may show hippocampal atrophy
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Vascular dementia presentation

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  • 2nd most common
  • Suggested by vascular RF
  • Imaging suggests vascular disease (ischaemic damage?)
  • Step wise progression
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Dementia with Lewy body presentation

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  • Gradually progressive
  • Prominent auditory or visual hallucinations
  • Delusions are well formed and persistent
  • Parkinsonism commonly present but not severe
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Presentation or parkinsons with dementia

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  • Parkinsons disease features are present and precede confusion for over a year
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Frontotemporal dementia presentation

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  • Onset early
  • Complex behavioural problems
  • Language dysfunction may occur
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Treatment for dementia

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  • Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimers to slow progression eg donepezil rivastigmine
  • For vascular - reduce risk factors
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