Delirium

Question 1

What are the 3 classifications of delirium?

Answer 1

Hyperactive
Hypoactive
Mixed

Question 2

Explain hyperactive delirium.

Answer 2

Restlessness, pacing and agitation with rapid mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
It is considered most familiar and generally detected once a crisis has reached.

Question 3

Explain hypoactive delirium?

Answer 3

Reduced motor activity, sluggishness, drowsiness or seeming dazed.
Least recognized and more common in older patients - quite hard to recognized and may go unreported and unnoticed.

Question 4

What is mixed delirium?

Answer 4

A mixutre of hypoactive and hyperactive symptoms, and can switch between the two.

Question 5

What is delirium?

Answer 5

Acute, transient, usually reversible, fluctuating disturbance in attention, cognition and consciousness level.