You are attending to a patient who is experiencing delirium, psychomotor agitation, and physiological excitation. The patient's family reports that they have never seen the patient act in this manner. You suspect:
a. Excitable delirium
b. Interpersonal causes
c. Environmental causes
d. Intrapsychic causes
a
Rationale: a. Correct. These answers are the classic triad related to excitable delirium.
b. Interpersonal causes are related to an event that is overwhelming and stressful to the patient.
c. Environmental causes result from stimuli outside the patient.
d. Intrapsychic causes result from underlying disease processes.
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