Delirium - Information For Families and Caregivers

Delirium is common in elderly hospitalized patients. This sheet will help you better understand this problem and how to react if it happens to your loved one.

Family and friends , Surgery, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Intensive Care, Transplantation and Organ Donation

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