ICD Version 2006

World Health Organization

 

F05 Delirium, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances
An etiologically nonspecific organic cerebral syndrome characterized by concurrent disturbances of consciousness and attention, perception, thinking, memory, psychomotor behaviour, emotion, and the sleep-wake schedule. The duration is variable and the degree of severity ranges from mild to very severe.

Includes: acute or subacute:
· brain syndrome
· confusional state (nonalcoholic)
· infective psychosis
· organic reaction
· psycho-organic syndrome

Excludes: delirium tremens, alcohol-induced or unspecified ( F10.4 )

F05.0 Delirium not superimposed on dementia, so described

F05.1 Delirium superimposed on dementia

Conditions meeting the above criteria but developing in the course of a dementia (F00-F03).

F05.8 Other delirium
 Delirium of mixed origin

F05.9 Delirium, unspecified

 

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