Friday, September 2, 2022

Acute Apathy Syndrome

Q: What is "acute apathy syndrome"?

Answer: Despite increased awareness and development of various tools/scores, delirium continues to deceive clinicians, particularly in ICU. Conventionally, delirium is broadly categorized as hyperactive, hypoactive, and mixed delirium. Hypoactive delirium is the most unrecognized delirium, particularly in elderly patients. 

Lately, it has been suggested that it might be time to recognize hypoactive delirium as a different entity and should be named "Acute Apathy Syndrome".

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Reference:

Schieveld JNM, Strik JJMH. Hypoactive Delirium Is More Appropriately Named as "Acute Apathy Syndrome". Crit Care Med 2018; 46:1561.

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