The Confused or Delirious Patient
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The American Journal of Nursing
- Vol. 68 (6) , 1228-1233
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000446-196806000-00018
Abstract
We know that sensory deprivation can cause disturbances in perception and behavior; that physiologic imbalance can produce the same result. The author describes how these processes occur and points out how restraints, although sometimes necessary for safety, may aggravate already disorganized behavior.Keywords
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