This course provides an overview of delirium and explains why we need to know about it to help raise awareness. The course aims to reach:
This course will take about 60 to 90 minutes to do. This timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the questions. You do not need to finish the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course it will remember where you got up to.
Dr Mani Santhana Krishnan FRCPsych produced this course in collaboration with recovery college online. Dr Krishnan is a Consultant in Old Age, Liaison Psychiatry, Associate Clinical Director and Academic Secretary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry. He has been actively championing delirium prevention. He started the hashtags ‘icanpreventDELIRIUM’ and ‘DeliriumReady’ and these now have global recognition.
Dr Krishnan and his team have won several national and regional awards. In 2016 his team won the Psychiatry Team of the Year at the national Royal College awards ceremony. He himself received the Inspirational Leader of the Year award in 2017 from North East Leadership Academy. At the British Medical Journal (BMJ) awards 2017, his Delirium Education work was highly commended.
If you would like to get a certificate for this course, you must mark each page complete. You can do this by pressing the ‘mark complete’ button at the bottom of each page.
Course updated: March 2025
To find out more information about delirium and access to resources and easy read information you can follow the links below as well as follow hashtag, 'icanpreventDELIRIUM' and hashtag 'DeliriumReady' on Twitter.
Click the following link to go to the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Click the following link to go to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Click the following link and then search for 'delirium': Dementia UK
Click the following link to go to the European Delirium Association
Click the following link to go to MindEd for Families
Resources you can share
Dr Krishnan has given permission for the following resources to be shared:
The Delirium Wheel PDF is an infographic entitled, 'Are they different today'. Click Delirium Wheel
For a description of what it says in words click Delirium-Wheel-infographic-accessible-version
The PDFs below are infographics depicting information described within this course.