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Revision as of 13:09, 9 June 2015
Altered mental status
Diffuse brain dysfunction
- Encephalopathies
- Hypoxic encephalopathy
- Metabolic encephalopathy
- Hypoglycemia
- Hyperosmolar state (e.g., hyperglycemia)
- Electrolyte Abnormalities (hypernatremia or hyponatremia, hypercalcemia)
- Organ system failure
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Uremia/Renal Failure
- Endocrine (Addison's disease, hypothyroidism)
- Hypoxia
- CO2 narcosis
- Hypertensive Encephalopathy
- Toxins
- Drug reactions (NMS)
- Environmental causes
- Deficiency state
- Sepsis
Primary CNS disease or trauma
- Direct CNS trauma
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Subdural/epidural hematoma
- Vascular disease
- Intraparenchymal hemorrhage
- SAH
- Infarction
- Hemispheric, brainstem
- CNS infections
- Neoplasms
- Seizures
- Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
- Postictal state
Psychiatric
- Acute psychosis
- Malingering