title: The diagnosis and treatment of delirium in children.
abstract: Delirium is commonly encountered in the setting of paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry. However, it is commonly misdiagnosed as current operational diagnostic criteria may be difficult to apply in children. We present a practical approach to eliciting the signs and symptoms of delirium in children and a proposed treatment algorithm which elaborates a variety of environmental management strategies and includes explicit thresholds for the use of antipsychotic medications.
authors: a Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town , Rondebosch , 7701 , South Africa.
authors: Sean
authors: S
authors: Hatherill
authors: Alan J
authors: AJ
authors: Flisher
authors: Rene
authors: R
authors: Nassen