SAT/24 MAY 2014 ADFM Monthly Talk and Caregivers Sharing Session

MONTHLY TALK & CAREGIVERS SHARING SESSION

SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2014, 2.00PM TO 5.30PM

ADFM PJ DAYCARE CENTRE

TALK TITLED “DELIRIUM”

By Prof. Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali

Senior Consultant Neurologist

Dean of UKM Medical Faculty and Director UKM Medical Centre

&  

SHARING “IT IS THE DISEASE – NOT THE PATIENT”

By Mdm Mui Siew Koon from Penang

Primary Caregiver for her late Mom

PROGRAM:

1.30pm    Taking Attendance

2.00pm    Talk “DELIRIUM” by Prof. Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali

3.00pm     Q & As

4.00pm     Sharing “It Is The Disease – Not The Patient” by Mdm Mui Siew Koon               

4.45pm     Q & As

5.15pm     Refreshment/End

SYNOPSIS:

Delirium, also known as an acute confusional state, is a medical emergency. While most cases are reversible, some may be fatal. Delirium may be the first sign of a diffuse brain dysfunction leading to drowsiness, seizures, coma and eventually, death. Up to a quarter of geriatric admissions to hospital are due to delirium, and anywhere between 5 and 40% of all inpatients become delirious during admission. In the early stages of delirium, patients may first complain of disorganized thinking and diminished attention. Later, their sleep-wake cycle becomes interrupted and they may have perceptual disturbances. In the advanced stages, patients have memory deficits and altered psychomotor activity, and may be violent and abusive. Depending on the cause, some patients may develop epileptic seizures. Finally patients become progressively drowsy and may lapse into a coma. There is a myriad causes of delirium; these include alcohol and alcohol withdrawal, non-convulsive epileptic seizures, brain infection, prescribed and recreational drugs and toxins, organ failure, uncontrolled diabetes, stroke, head trauma and metabolic disorders (e.g. hypoglycaemia and hyponatraemia). The investigations required for a delirious patient depend on what the doctor finds on physical examination and history gathered from family members and witnesses. The cornerstone of treatment of delirium is to treat the underlying cause. While some patients may require chemical or physical restraint because of violent behaviour, the majority will settle down while waiting for the underlying cause to be treated with simple general measures, such as the reduction of “environment unfamiliarity”, in the same manner that one would manage a demented patient.

Speaker’s Profile:

PROF. DATO DR RAMOND AZMAN ALI was born in 1960 in Penang, Malaysia.  Prof Dato’ Dr Raymond Azman Ali is A Senior Consultant Neurologist and Dean of UKM Medical Faculty as well as Director of UKM Medical Centre.

He graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, with an Honours MBBS Degree in 1984, and Masters of Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore and UKM in 1989 and 1991 respectively. He then completed his Doctorate in Epilepsy Research at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London in 1994, and was awarded an MD (Monash University) in 1996, the FRCP (Ireland), FRCP (Glasgow) and FAMM in 2001. He was Head of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1999 to 2001, and deputy Dean from 2003 to 2008. He is currently Chairman of the Epilepsy Council of Malaysia, Member of the Ministry of Health Committee on Drugs Used in Neurology, and Committee on Neurology Subspecialty Training in Malaysia, a Member of the Editorial Board of Neurology Asia, and Ad Hoc Reviewer of several international journals, including Annals of Neurology, European Journal of Neurology, BMC Neurology and the Singapore Medical Journal.

He delivered more than 280 lectures locally and abroad and published 72 full journal papers and over 150 abstracts, proceedings and book chapters related to neurology. He has won the Best Teacher (Pengajar Cemerlang) award for the Health Sciences 6 times, the last one being conferred in 2009. And, in the 39-year history of UKM, he is the only recipient of the highest award for teaching in UKM so far, the Tokoh Pengajar Award in 2002. In 2009, he also received the Anugerah Akademik Negara or National Best Teacher Award from the Ministry of Higher of Education, making him the best teacher in the Health Sciences for the whole country for that year. He was the first medical doctor to ever win this prestigious award, and no other doctor has since won this award again. In 2011, he was named Tokoh Merdeka of Malaysia and joined the parade of other joint recipients before the Prime Minister of Malaysia and in 2012, he was presented with the Tokoh Penyelidik award at the 14th Health Sciences Research Week of UKM.

PARTICIPANTS:

Priority will be for Caregivers and their families.  We open to Nurses / Carers from the nursing / community care homes who directly or indirectly are involved in the care of persons living with dementia. 

Certificate of Attendance will be issued by ADFM to participants who are nurses.

COMPULSORY PRE-REGISTRATION: (NO WALK-IN PLEASE)

1.  Click on "Registration Form" and email completed form to jenny@adfm.org.my or Fax to 03 7960 8482.

2.  SMS 016 608 2513 indicating (a) full name, (b) Caregiver  (Yes / No), and (c) Tel/mobile contacts, if you do not have access to email.

Further information, contact jenny@adfm.org.my or call 016 608 2513 / 03 7931 5850.

From:  ADFM National Caregivers Support Network

May 2014