Acute encephalopathy
The term acute encephalopathy refers to a rapidly developing (usually within hours to a few days) pathobiological process (disease) in the brain. The diagnosis is made by means of Electroencephalography, EEG. (
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Acute encephalopathy & delirium
Acute encephalopathy often manifests itself as delirium. Delirium is diagnosed based on clinical features. Both diagnoses are characterized by an underlying cause.
Research shows that only 12% to 35% of delirious patients are recognized with current screening tools (
).
20 million patients per year
in the US and the EU, need brain state monitoring, because they are at risk of acute encephalopathy /delirium.
Conservative estimate based on
Doubling hospital stay
The length of stay in hospital is considerably prolonged by delirium.
More dementia
People aged 85 or higher have an 8x higher chance to get dementia after delirium.
More nursing home admissions
37% of the patients with post-acute encephalopathy and delirium are admitted to nursing homes.
High mortality risk
Patients with acute encephalopathy and delirium have a 1.5 times higher mortality risk in 1st year after discharge.
High healthcare costs
The economic impact of delirium is similar to that of Type 2 diabetes.
33%
of hospitalized patients
About 33% of hospitalized patients over the age of 70 will suffer from acute encephalopathy a/o delirium
15-50%
of postoperative patients
15-50% of postoperative patients over the age of 70 will suffer from acute encephalopathy a/o delirium
19-82%
of intensive care patients
19-82% of intensive care patients will suffer from acute encephalopathy a/o delirium
