Altered mental status

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 967-983

  Douglas, Vanja C ^a   Josephson, S Andrew ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIMETIDINE; CREATININE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ETIRACETAM; FAMOTIDINE; GLUCOSE; LEVODOPA; LORAZEPAM; MEMANTINE; METRONIDAZOLE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NALOXONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OPIATE; QUETIAPINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TAMSULOSIN; THIAMINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CIRCULATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSULTATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DELIRIUM; DISORIENTATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE PSYCHOSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PARESTHESIA; PARKINSONISM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; UNSTEADINESS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTIGO; WEAKNESS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 80053616177     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: 15386899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000407055.17661.33     Document Type: Review

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