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%T Delirium in the elderly in intensive care units: an integrative literature review %A Barros, Marcia Abath Aires de %A Figueirêdo, Danielle Samara Tavares de Oliveira %A Fernandes, Maria das Graças Melo %A Neto, José Melquiades Ramalho %A Macêdo-Costa, Kátia Neyla de Freitas %J Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online %N 3 %P 2738-2748 %V 7 %D 2015 %K Delirium; Intensive care units %@ 2175-5361 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-53991-2 %X Objective: conducting a survey about delirium in the elderly in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: an integrative review of the literature held in databases MEDLINE and IBECS, in May 2012, whose inclusion criteria were: to be published between May 2007 to May 2012, available in full and in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Results: there were found 68 productions and selected 16, which were categorized into: 1) Incidence and prevalence of delirium in the elderly in ICU; 2) Factors predisposing and precipitating risk of delirium in the elderly in ICU and 3) Strategies for preventing modifiable risk factors of delirium in the elderly patients in the ICU. Conclusion: the scientific production about delirium is incipient in Brazil, health professionals, especially nurses, need to improving the recognition of this syndrome and implementing strategies for risk prevention factors for delirium. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info