The team uses intravenous haloperiodol, an antipsychotic drug helpful in acute delirium, and quickly makes changes to normalize patients'lives.
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Untrained doctors might not recognize dementia, which puts an older patient at risk for a dangerous acute delirium after surgery, or during an infection like pneumonia.
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From 1902 to 1904, the ward admitted 331 patients : 24 transferred from other wards, 24 with acute delirium, 20 % with melancholy or mania, 20 % alcoholics, and others with dementia, uremia, and eclampsia.