Elderly patients with altered mental status

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 701-715

  O'Keefe, K P ^a   Sanson, T G ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DROPERIDOL; GLUCOSE; HALOPERIDOL; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN AGONIST; THIAMINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTOXICATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY; VIOLENCE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 0031773453     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(05)70029-8     Document Type: Article

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