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Symptom management: Confusion and Delirium

This Confusion and Delirium module is part of the VUCCnet elearning course in palliative care which has been developed in partnership with the African Palliative Care Association and Cardiff University.  Experts in palliative care from across Africa and the UK have contributed to ensure this module is contextualised to the sub-Saharan cancer profile and resource setting. 

Please click here for ecancer's special issue focusing on palliative care in Africa, featuring five original articles from on-the-ground experts, and an editorial by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Professor Anne Merriman.

This module was published in November 2013.

THIS E-LEARNING MODULE RUNS BEST ON MOZILLA FIREFOX AND INTERNET EXPLORER 7 AND ABOVE WITH FLASH ENABLED.

Symptom management: Confusion and Delirium
Modulo
English
0 CME Points

Público destinatarios

Multi-disciplinary African healthcare professionals

Objetivos educativos

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  • Identify clinical features of delirium.
  • Diagnose and treat reversible causes of delirium in paliiative care patients.
  • Be aware of non-drug strategies to manage delirium.
  • Recognise when symptomatic drug treatment of delirium is appropriate
  • Prescribe appropriate drugs to aid management.

Requisitos del sistema

This module requires the learner to have a good, stable internet connection and runs best on INTERNET EXPLORER 7 AND ABOVE, and MOZILLA FIREFOX on either Windows or MacOS. FLASH ADD ON is also required to run this module.

Soporte

This module was funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency - Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy