Journal Club
Upcoming Journal Club
Sleeping on it: Exploring Melatonin's role in Delirium
Wednesday 11th September 2024
4pm - 5pm AEST
Online Via Zoom
with Special Guest A/Prof Peter Lange
Peter is the Director of Geriatrics and General Medicine at Werribee Mercy Hospital in Western Melbourne and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. A/Prof Lange was awarded his PhD in 2024, his research explored the role of melatonin in the management of delirium.
Peter will be discussing findings from his paper:
Past events
Journal Club Goes North!
Wednesday 30 November 2022
4pm AEST*
Prof Andrew Teodorczuk and Dr Eamonn Eeles who will be discussing:
Heartbreak hotel for delirium prevention?
Based on this article: Outcomes of a Delirium Prevention Program in Older Persons After Elective Surgery: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2787212
Interdisciplinary Journal Club
Wednesday 28 September 2022
4pm AEDT*
A/Prof Hannah Keage, Dr Danielle Greaves and Monique Boord, all from UniSA, who will be discussing: Does prehab prevent delirium?
Based on this article: Effect of Cognitive Prehabilitation on the Incidence of Postoperative Delirium Among Older Adults Undergoing Major Noncardiac Surgery: The Neurobics Randomized Clinical Trial.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2772853
Evidence and plausibility
Wednesday 27 April 2022
4pm AEDT*
Anita Nitchingham and Annemarie Hosie, Professor of Nursing at Notre Dame University, who will be discussing: Family and positive affirmation for patients with delirium: The evidence and the plausibility.
Based on this article: Using simulated family presence to decrease agitation in older hospitalized delirious patients: A randomized controlled trial.
World Delirium Awareness Day Journal Club
Wednesday 16 March 2022
4pm AEDT*
Anita Nitchingham and Gideon Caplan who will be discussing: From awareness to action.
Discussing this article: Effect of a Ward-Based Program on Hospital-Associated Complications and Length of Stay for Older Inpatients: The Cluster Randomized CHERISH Trial. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7556
If brain is boss, is BIS best?
Wednesday 24 November 2021
4pm AEDT*
Louisa Lowes (Anaesthetist and Director of Perioperative Medicine) talking with Anita Nitchingham and Gideon Caplan.
The decide trial
Wednesday 27 October 2021
4pm AEDT*
Anita Nitchingham and Gideon Caplan will be discussing a pair of articles by Sarah Richardson entitled:
- Hospitalisation without delirium is not associated with cognitive decline in a population-based sample of older people—results from a nested, longitudinal cohort study https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab068
- Recurrent delirium over 12 months predicts dementia: results of the Delirium and Cognitive Impact in Dementia (DECIDE) study https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa244