Template:General ED Psychiatric Workup: Difference between revisions

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* Urine pregnancy/beta-hCG (if female of childbearing age)
* Urine pregnancy/beta-hCG (if female of childbearing age)
*Consider:
*Consider:
**Ammonia (see [[Hepatic encephalopathy]])
**TSH (hypo or hyperthyroidism may mimic mental illness)
**TSH (hypo or hyperthyroidism may mimic mental illness)
**[[CXR]] (for [[Tb]] screen or rule-out [[delirium]] in older patient)
**[[CXR]] (for [[Tb]] screen or rule-out [[delirium]] in older patient)
**UA (for rule-out [[delirium]] in older patients)
**UA (for rule-out [[delirium]] in older patients)
**HCT (to rule-out [[ICH]] in patients with [[AMS]])
**HCT (to rule-out [[ICH]] in patients with [[AMS]])

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General ED Psychiatric Workup