The test is not "is the patient confused?" It is tempo plus attention: years of cognition loss is dementia; hours to days of attention failure is delirium until proven otherwise.
Tap between the chronic brain failure and the acute attention failure. Then run the bedside attention test.
The test move is simple: first decide whether attention failed, then chase the body trigger.
Dementia does not protect you from delirium. It makes delirium easier to trigger because the brain has less spare capacity.
Delirium treatment is cause-first. Haloperidol is a behavior-control tool when needed, and its side effects are testable.
Predict the rule, then check it against the lock text.
Use these to anchor the diagnostic tools: structural atrophy belongs to chronic cognitive disease; EEG is a functional brain readout that can slow in delirium.
Twenty-five cases. Right-click or long-press to cross out. Double-click or double-tap to mark. Answer choices shuffle every case.
