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Confusion - Coggle Diagram

- - - - admission to hospital or other unfamiliar facility
      - sundowning
- - - - slurring words, having long pauses during speech, abnormal/incoherent speech, lack of awareness of location or time, forgetting what a task is while performing it, and sudden changes in emotion (sudden agitation)
      - struggling to focus, feeling groggy, mumbling, saying things that do not make sense, the person not being able to recognize themselves, not being able to recognize where they are, getting worked and upset for no reason, and may see things that are not real
      - dizziness, rapid heart beat, clammy skin, fever, headache, shivering, irregular breathing, weakness on one side of the body, and slurred speech
      - Depending on the cause of confusion, patients may also experience enlarged lymph nodes, malaise, nausea without vomiting, abdominal pain, abnormal heart rhythm (tachycardia, bradycardia), difficulty with breathing, rapid breathing, dry skin, changes in skin color, frequent nutrition, fruity breath, muscle weakness, neck stiffness/ rigidity, or rashes
- - - - citalopram (Celexa)-helps improve working memory
      - escitalopram oxalate (Lexapro)-improve affective/cognitive symptoms, improves memory
      - luoxetine (Prozac)-improves memory and learning