Cerebral dysfunction as a component of multiple organ failure in surgical patients (lecture).

Development of delirium in critically ill patients is considered complication of basic disease which increases patients' hospital stay, mortality rate and the cost of treatment. Despite wide prevalence delirium often remains undiagnosed by physicians in ICU. Routine use of screening scales permits to diagnose delirium timely. Multicomponent preventive strategy with intermittent sedation and dexmedetomidine improves the results of treatment.