Foreword; Part I. What is Delirium in Critical Care?: 1. Delirium as acute brain failure; 2. DSM IV criteria; 3. History; 4. Terminology in critical care; Part II. Delirium in Critical Care - How Common Is It?: 5. Incidence and prevalence in different critical care populations; 6. Duration; Part III. Delirium in Critical Care - What Does It Look Like?: 7. Hyperactive, hypoactive, mixed motoric subtypes; 8. Clinical examples; Part IV. Delirium in Critical Care - How Does It Happen?: 9. Pathophysiology, including theories for septic encephalopathy, cortisol, modulation immune system; Part V. Delirium in Critical Care - What Causes It?: 10. Risk factors, predisposing and precipitating; Part VI. Delirium in Critical Care - Why Is It Important?: 11. Adverse outcomes; 12. Independent predictor mortality; 13. Association with long-term cognitive impairment; 14. Diagnosing new morbidity in patients; 15. Impact on relatives and family; Part VII. Delirium in Critical Care - How Do We Diagnose It?: 16. Screening tools, CAM-ICU, ICDSC and even NEECHAM (not useful in intubated patients); Part VIII. Delirium in Critical Care - How Do We Prevent It?: 17. Multi-component interventions to minimise predisposing risk factors; 18. Drugs used for sedation; Part IX. Delirium in Critical Care - How Do We Treat It?: 19. Identifying and treating precipitating cause; 20. Antipsychotics; 21. Do we need to involve a psychiatrist?; Part X. Delirium in Critical Care and the Law: 22. Mental capacity and ability to make choices; 23. End of life care in delirious patients; Part XI. Delirium in Critical Care - What's Its Future In Critical Care?: 24. Routine screening in ICUs, early management; 25. New ways of giving old sedative drugs, new drugs; 26. Research into whether treating delirium, decreasing duration improves outcomes; 27. Follow up cognitive assessment; Index.
