Because clinical signs are not always immediately diagnosed and the necessity for immediate therapeutic intervention, agitation can often provoke reactions of alarm and destabilization.
The sound of these Italian-influenced studies of agitation is beautifully immediate, the performance a dialogue between two pairs of duet partners, with violinist Catherine Manson a lively foil to Paolo Pandolfo's gloriously open-sounding viola da gamba, and lutenist Mike Fentross tailoring each phrase to Koopman's harpsichord or organ.
Often, suicide is preceded by periods of self-medication through drugs and alcohol, which offer immediate relief then contribute to agitation and increased depression upon withdrawal.
Her agitation made me agitated.
Sometimes, our responses to these behaviors will cause our loved one even greater agitation, especially when they're completely detached from immediate reality.
The inability to have immediate access to the patient due to the level of agitation makes the recording of vital signs and the detection of adverse effects more difficult in the mental health care setting.
Hypercapnic encephalopathy (HES) is often considered a cause of immediate NIV failure because of poor compliance due to confusion and/or agitation.
In the emergency department, a magnetic resonance tomography of the brain was performed, but demonstrated no abnormalities apart from first signs of a subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy.> An immediate lumbar puncture was not successful because of the patient's agitation, but was conducted on the second day of admission, when nuchal rigidity emerged.
The ideal sedative for use after cardiac surgery would have an immediate onset of action, be effective at providing immediate resolution of the agitation and anxiety, allow rapid recovery after discontinuation, lack drug accumulation, have minimal adverse effects, and be cost-effective [ 1, 2].
Criteria for immediate reintubation were cardiac or respiratory arrest, respiratory pauses with neurological deterioration, massive aspiration, uncontrollable agitation, sputum retention, and hemodynamic deterioration unresponsive to vasoactive drugs.
