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Thursday 8 October
0900 Registration
0930 Welcome and introduction
John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, Leeds, England
Session 1
Chair: Jouko Laurila, President of the European Delirium Association
0940 Invited talk: Delirium in the intensive care unit
Valerie Page, Consultant in Intensive Care, Watford, England
1010 Delirium incidence and consequences in critically ill patients
Mark van den Boogaard, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1025 Delusional memories reported by children following intensive care admission: is this evidence of delirium?
Gillian Colville, Paediatric Psychology Service, St George's Hospital, London, England
1040 Coffee and posters
Session 2
Chair: Sophia de Rooij, Head of Geriatric Medicine Section, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1115 Development and validation of a novel computerised testing device for detecting attentional deficits in delirium
Laura Brown, Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1130 Evaluation of attention deficits indicative of delirium in patients with dementia
Christine Thomas, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld, Germany
1145 Carphology, floccillation and delirium
Rachel Holt, University of Leeds, England
1200 Keynote: How can we improve the detection of delirium?
David Meagher, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Limerick, Ireland
1245 Lunch and posters
Session 3
Chair: Valerie Page, Consultant in Intensive Care, Watford, England
1400 Invited talk: Pathophysiological studies in delirium: a focus on genetics
Barbara van Munster, Fellow in Internal Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1430 Invited talk: Delirium in the paediatric intensive care unit: the state of the art and some new data
Jan Schieveld, Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychiatrist, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1500 Coffee and posters
Session 4
Chair: Alasdair MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1530 Invited talk: Uniting cholinergic and inflammatory hypotheses of delirium
Colm Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
1600 Parallel Workshops
(1) Delirium guidelines development at the national level
Facilitators: John Young, Chair of National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Delirium Guideline committee/Head of Academic unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research, England, and Najma Siddiqi, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds
(2) Developments in the drug treatment of delirium
Facilitator: David Meagher, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Limerick, Ireland
(3) Clinical services development for delirium
Facilitators: Nadine Schofield, Head of Service Transformation, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, England, and John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, Leeds, England
(4) Pathophysiology research in delirium
Facilitators: Barbara van Munster, Fellow in Internal Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Alasdair MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1715 Feedback from workshops: key messages
1730 Close of day
1930 Conference dinner
Friday 9 October
0830 Registration
0900 Welcome and introduction
John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, Leeds, England
Session 1
Chair: Allan House, Professor of Liaison Psychiatry and Director of the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
0910 Invited talk: Developments in delirium care in the USA
Barbara Kamholz, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University, and Chair of the National VA Delirium Working Group
0940 Enquiries into the pathophysiology of delirium
Gideon Caplan, Prince of Wales Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
0955 Predictive value of the informant based IQCODE, MMSE and AD biomarkers (i.e. CSF Abeta42 and tau) for delirium
Joost Witlox, Medical Centre Alkmaar, The Netherlands
1010 Delirium in patients with Alzheimer Disease: structural pathologies in cholinergic innervation? A diffusion-tensor imaging study
Stefan Kreisel, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld, Germany
1025 Prevalence of delirium among very old people: an epidemiological study from northern Sweden and Finland
Birgitta Olofsson, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University, Sweden
1040 Using Critical Discourse Analysis to explore nurses' day-to-day care of patients with delirium
Irene Schofield, School of Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
1055 Coffee and posters
Session 2
Chair: Nadine Schofield, Head of Service Transformation, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, England
1125 Invited talk: Growing new services for delirium in acute hospitals
John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, Leeds, England
1155 Personal experiences of delirium
Three members of the public will discuss their experiences
1240 Lunch and posters
Session 3
Chair: Rachel Holt, Senior Research Fellow, University of Leeds
1400 Invited talk: Experimental designs in delirium research
Dimitrios Adamis, Consultant Psychiatrist, Research and Academic Institute of Athens, Greece
1430 Parallel Workshops
(1) Delirium guidelines development at the national level
Facilitators: John Young, Chair of National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Delirium Guideline committee/Head of Academic unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research, England, and Najma Siddiqi, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds
(2) Developments in the drug treatment of delirium
Facilitator: David Meagher, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Limerick, Ireland
(3) Clinical services development for delirium
Facilitator: Nadine Schofield, Head of Service Transformation, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, England, and John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, Leeds, England
(4) Delirium education
Andrew Teodorczuk, Teaching Research Fellow, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, England
1600 Feedback from workshops: key messages
1615 Closing statement and announcement of EDA 2010
Jouko Laurila, President of the European Delirium Association
1630 Close of meeting