Altered Mental StatusDaniel J. LebovitzComprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Care guide for Altered Mental Status. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Altered mental status (AMS) is a common neurological manifestation of COVID-19 infection in hospitalized patients. The principal causes of AMS have yet to be determined. We aimed to identify the common causes of AMS in patients with COVID-19 presenting to the emergency department with AMS on ...
Altered mental status (AMS) can be caused by a myriad of conditions. Patients with AMS are common in the Emergency Department, and a significant number of them require timely intervention as many of the underlying conditions are treatable [1]. When a patient presents to the emergency department...
2013, Clinics in Geriatric Medicine Citation Excerpt : One systematic review reported that NCSE occurred in 8% to 30% of patients with altered mental status (mean prevalence = 22%).40 This systematic review consisted of 5 studies that predominantly enrolled patients in the hospital setting.40 NCS...
'Coma and Altered Mental Status in the Surgical Critical Care Setting; Brain Death' published in 'General Surgery'
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University Hospital of KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 5Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 6Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway...
Over the past decades, the immune responses have been suspected of participating in the mechanisms for epilepsy. To assess the immune related pathway in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), we explored the altered immune pathways in TLE patients with and withou
In addition, there are several synonyms for ALC, such as loss of consciousness, altered mental status, impaired consciousness, and altered level of consciousness. The variety of names suggests that ALC is a nonspecific sign or symptom with diverse etiologies. The etiology of ALC in the ER has ...