Confusion risk factors
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Govindavarjhulla, M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
Increasing age, hospital admission, post surgical status, alcoholism, and an underlying brain lesion are common risk factors.
Risk factors
Risk factors of confusion can be grouped under different categories, one which increase the chances, one due to underlying brain conditions and the one which precipitate confusion.[1]
- Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors
- Hospitalization
- Post surgical recovery
- Admission into intensive care unit
- Drug abuse
- Alcoholism
- Multisystem organ failure
Underlying brain conditions
- Stroke
- Parkinson disease
- Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Psychiatric disorders
Precipitating factors
- Hypoxia
- Hypoglycemia
- Poisonings
- Infections
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Prolonged immobility
- Head injury
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure