Why does hospitalization increase delirium?

By | October 21st, 2020

Delirium occurs because a person’s brain has been acutely insulted by an illness bad enough that they may be required to go to a hospital. Their delirium is a product of many different factors coming together: aging brain, acutely ill, goes to hospital, changing environment, and a host of other noxious stimuli to the brain.

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