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===Life Threatening Causes=== | ===Life Threatening Causes=== | ||
*Acute Liver failure | *Acute Liver failure | ||
*Acute Renal failure | *Acute Renal failure | ||
*[[Adrenal cortex insufficiency]] | *[[Adrenal cortex insufficiency]] | ||
*[[Alcohol withdrawal]] | *[[Alcohol withdrawal]] | ||
*[[Brain infection]] | *[[Brain infection]] | ||
*[[Burns]] | *[[Burns]] | ||
*[[Carbon monoxide toxicity]] | *[[Carbon monoxide toxicity]] | ||
*[[Cardiac failure]] | *[[Cardiac failure]] | ||
*[[Cerebral infarction]] | *[[Cerebral infarction]] | ||
*[[Cerebral oedema]] | *[[Cerebral oedema]] | ||
*[[Cerebrovascular accident]] | *[[Cerebrovascular accident]] | ||
*Cyanide | *Cyanide | ||
*[[Diabetic hypoglycemia]] | *[[Diabetic hypoglycemia]] | ||
*[[Diabetic ketoacidosis]] | *[[Diabetic ketoacidosis]] | ||
*[[Drug overdose]] | *[[Drug overdose]] | ||
*[[Drug withdrawal]] | *[[Drug withdrawal]] | ||
*[[ | ===Common Causes=== | ||
* | *[[Antihistamines]] | ||
* | *[[Antipsychotics]] | ||
* | *Chronic Liver failure | ||
*Chronic Renal failure | |||
*[[Encephalitis]] | *[[Encephalitis]] | ||
*[[Epidural haemorrhage]] | *[[Epidural haemorrhage]] | ||
Revision as of 00:02, 21 February 2014
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Pratik Bahekar, MBBS [2]
Definition
Delirium is an acute and relatively sudden (developing over hours to days) decline in attention-focus, perception, and cognition.
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
- Acute Liver failure
- Acute Renal failure
- Adrenal cortex insufficiency
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Brain infection
- Burns
- Carbon monoxide toxicity
- Cardiac failure
- Cerebral infarction
- Cerebral oedema
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Cyanide
- Diabetic hypoglycemia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Drug overdose
- Drug withdrawal
Common Causes
- Antihistamines
- Antipsychotics
- Chronic Liver failure
- Chronic Renal failure
- Encephalitis
- Epidural haemorrhage
- Epileptic seizures
- Ethanol
- Ethylene glycol
- Fat embolism
- Folate deficiency
- Gangrene
- Hallucinogens
- Head injury
- Heart failure
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- Heat stroke
- Heroin
- Hperthyroidism
- Hpherphosphatemia
- Hydrogen sulfide
- Hyomagnesemia
- Hyperbaric sickness
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypercarbia
- Hypereosinophilia
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypernatremia
- Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma
- Hyperosmolar states
- Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Hyperthermia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypoglycemia
- Hyponatremia
- hypoosmolar states
- Hypophosphatemia
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothermia
- Hypothyroidism
- Hypoxemia
- Hypoxemia
- Hypoxia
- Infections
- Intracranial abscess / granuloma
- Intracranial bleeding
- Intraspinal abscess / granuloma
- Jimson weed
- Lead
- Leukemic blast cell crisis
- Lithium
- Liver failure
- Malaria
- Malignant hypertension
- Marijuana
- Meningitis
- Meningoencephalitis
- Mental exhaustion
- Mental stress
- Methanol
- Neurocysticercosis
- Niacin deficiencies
- Nickel Carbonyl poisoning
- Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
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- Organic solvent
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Phencyclidine poisoning
- Pituitary apoplexy
- Plague
- Poison hemlock
- Polycythemia
- Porphyria
- Post-ictal states
- Postoperative stress
- Pyelonephritis, acute
- Quinolones
- Rabies
- Raised intracranial pressure
- Renal failure, acute
- Renal failure, chronic
- Respiratory failure
- Rickettsiae
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Sepsis
- Serotonin syndrome
- Skeletal muscle relaxers
- Skull fracture
- Sleeping sickness (East African)
- Sleeping sickness (West African)
- Subdural empyema
- Surgical wound infection
- Systemic infections
- systemic inflammatory response syndrome
- Systemic organ failure
- Texas Mescalbean poisoning
- Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency
- Thallium Sulfate poisoning
- Thrombocytosis
- Toluene
- Toxic mushrooms -- Monomethylhydrazine
- Trauma
- Typhoid fever
- Urinary tract infection
- Valproic acid
- Vancomycin resistant enterococcal bacteremia
- Vasculitis
- Venous sinus thrombosis
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Water hemlock poisoning
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
- Wilson's disease
- Withdrawal states from ethanol, benzodiazepines
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