Open AccessPhysiological Assessment of Delirium Severity: The Electroencephalographic Confusion Assessment Method Severity Score (E-CAM-S)
Author(s) -
Meike van Sleuwen,
Haoqi Sun,
Christine Eckhardt,
Anudeepthi Neelagiri,
Ryan A. Tesh,
Mike Westmeijer,
Luis Paixão,
Sharika Rajan,
Parimala Velpula Krishnamurthy,
Pooja Sikka,
Michael J. Leone,
Ezhil Panneerselvam,
Syed A. Quadri,
Oluwaseun Akeju,
Eyal Y. Kimchi,
M. Brandon Westover
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005224
Subject(s) - medicine , delirium , cohort , retrospective cohort study , electroencephalography , severity of illness , confusion , area under the curve , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , psychology , psychoanalysis
Delirium is a common and frequently underdiagnosed complication in acutely hospitalized patients, and its severity is associated with worse clinical outcomes. We propose a physiologically based method to quantify delirium severity as a tool that can help close this diagnostic gap: the Electroencephalographic Confusion Assessment Method Severity Score (E-CAM-S).