Delirium: practice question

The best answer is B, Infection or medication effect. Delirium is commonly precipitated by acute medical illness, infection, medication toxicity, withdrawal, pain, dehydration, or metabolic disturbance and needs cause-focused assessment.

Stable personality traits do not produce acute fluctuating delirium.

Learning style is not an acute medical precipitant.

Eye color has no relationship to delirium.

It tests Delirium in Psychiatry. The correct option holds because: Correct: infection and medication effects are common reversible delirium triggers.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

Learn each diagnosis by its core features and its first-line treatment. Then use the flashcards and the other Psychiatry questions on this site to test what stuck.

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