Delirium

`well-referenced aid that will be appreaciated by many in the field as it is very user-friendly. It is a handy and appreciated reference volume for anybody treating delirium patients, particularly in palliative medicine.'
Psychological Medicine

`It achieves its aim to encourage further exploration of this difficult area.'
Palliative Medicine, Vol 18, 2

`This is a useful and stimulating book that takes our thinking about the meaning and management of delirium one step further. A worthy addition to the Palliative Care Service library.'
IAHPC website

<br>After graduating from medical school at the Universita degli Studi di Milano, Augusto Caraceni was board certified in Neurology and in Clinical Neurophysiology from the Universita di Pavia. While training in pain therapy and in palliative care at the National Cancer Institute of Milan in 1986 he participated in the WHO program to test and disseminate the WHO ladder for cancer pain relief. Clinical fellow in Neurology and Palliative Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York in 1994, he served for many years as member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Palliative Care and as Vice President of the European Association of Palliative Care. Editor of the Italian Journal of Palliative Care, his work has always emphasized the development of national and international research collaboration in palliative care, participating in the establishment of a European research network within EAPC and recently of the European Palliative Care Research Center (PRC) as Vice Chair. <br>Luigi Grassi graduated in Medicine at the University of Bologna in 1981 and board certified in Medical Psychology in 1985 (University of Bologna) and in Psychiatry in 1989 (University of Ferrara). He is currently Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is the Director of the Post-graduation Residency Program in Psychiatry and the graduate course in Rehabilitation Psychiatry. He is also the Chief of the Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit, Department of Mental Health and Drug Abuse, NHS Local Health Agency in Ferrara. He has been Visiting professor in several centers in the USA and coordinated the EU Project "Improving Health Staff's Communication and Assessment Skills of Psychosocial Morbidity and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: a Study in Southern European Countries (SEPO-S)."<br>

List of abbreviations; 1. From history to present definitions; 2. From history to present definitions; 3. Epidemiology; 4. Clinical phenomenology; 5. Differential diagnosis; 6. Frequent aetiologies; 7. Delirium in special populations; 8. Diagnostic assessment; 9. Management; 10. Family issues; Appendices