Altered mental status due to metabolic or endocrine disorders

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 901-908

  Bazakis, Andrew M ^a,b   Kunzler, Catherine ^c  

^a Synergy Medical Education Alliance   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLUCOSE; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISORIENTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATIGUE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LETHARGY; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL INSTABILITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOOD; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 20744436536     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2005.03.004     Document Type: Review

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