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Geriatrisk avdeling
Oslo universitetssykehus
Bjørn Erik Neerland er ph.d., spesialist i indremedisin og i geriatri, overlege og forsker i Oslo Delirium Research Group.
Articles by Bjørn Erik Neerland
The pandemic of the vulnerable
- Bjørn Erik Neerland
14.08.2020:
The health of vulnerable older people is under threat from both COVID-19 and the infection control measures implemented to protect them from serious illness and death. Early in the pandemic, it became clear that frail older people with multimorbidity are at greatest risk of serious illness and death...
COVID-19 in an elderly woman with acute functional decline
- Bjørn Erik Neerland,
- Andrea Dobloug,
- Kristin Grotle Nore,
- Espen Eliasson Mikaelsen,
- Arve Halsen,
- Marc Vali Ahmed
09.04.2020:
A woman in her late eighties was referred to Accident and Emergency because of acute functional decline with falls and increasing confusion. SARS-CoV-2 infection was confirmed 48 hours later. Many older people and residents of care homes are vulnerable to functional decline with acute illness...
Delirium and cognitive impairment among older patients in Norwegian emergency departments
- Sigurd Evensen,
- Ingvild Saltvedt,
- Anette Hylen Ranhoff,
- Marius Myrstad,
- Christian Myrstad,
- Marte Mellingsæter,
- Marte Sofie Wang-Hansen,
- Bjørn Erik Neerland
13.03.2019:
Delirium is an acute change in attention, awareness and cognition that arises in association with physiological changes such as illness, injuries or surgery Box 1) ( (1). Delirium may affect anybody, but advanced age and cognitive impairment significantly increase the risk (2). The prognosis for...
New consciousness scale for delirium
- Bjørn Erik Neerland,
- Marc Ahmed,
- Leiv Otto Watne,
- Karen Roksund Hov,
- Torgeir Bruun Wyller
28.01.2014:
A new tool for assessing level of consciousness may improve the diagnosis of delirium. We have translated the Observational Scale of Level of Arousal (OSLA) into Norwegian and will use it in clinical practice and research. Delirium, or ‘acute confusional state’, occurs frequently in acute somatic...