Delirium etiology and management — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What drug should you avoid in delirium?_____

Answer: Benzodiazepines

Flashcard 2: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by decreased intellectual function without affecting level of consciousness? _____

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 3: _____ (dementia or delirium) is usually secondary to other illness (e.g. CNS disease, infection, trauma, substance abuse/withdrawal, metabolic disturbances, hemorrhage, urinary/fecal retention)

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 4: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by acute onset "waxing and waning" level of consciousness? _____

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 5: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 6: mammillary bodies

Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Flashcard 7: frontal lobe

Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes

Flashcard 8: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition

Flashcard 9: aphasia

Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem

Flashcard 10: long-term memory

Answer: limbic system