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The key features of delirium
The key features of delirium (acute psychosis caused by a brain or medical illness)
A person with delirium will experience some of the following symptoms:
• disorientation (he does not know where he is or what time it is)
• fever, excess sweating, raised pulse rate and other physical signs
• poor memory
• disturbed sleep pattern
• visual hallucinations (seeing things others cannot)
• symptoms that vary from hour to hour, with periods of apparent recovery alternating with periods of severe symptoms
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