Altered mental status dementia
[DOC File]UCLA NEUROLOGY
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Altered mental status. CNS infection. Cognitive impairment or dementia. Dizziness or vertigo. Disturbance of speech or language. Headache. Loss of consciousness, coma, or brain death. Numbness or altered sensation. Seizure or epilepsy. Spinal cord injury or syndrome. Tremor or other involuntary movements. Vision loss or diplopia. m. Weakness ...
[DOCX File]A Patient with an Altered Mental Status
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A Patient with an Altered Mental Status. Your first week on the medical service, you are asked to assume the care of an 88-year-old man who was recently admitted for a bleeding gastric ulcer. He was a resident of a nearby nursing home and has a long history of multiple medical problems including congestive heart failure, insulin dependent ...
[DOCX File]Guidelines to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and ...
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Mental disorder may arise as the consequence of long-term substance use; for example, the cognitive impairment of a Korsakoff’s psychosis. If a person has a mental disorder, no matter what its underlying cause, the Mental Health Act may apply.
[DOC File]Fall Prevention and Management Program
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(more than one diagnosis) No 0 Yes 15 AMBULATORY AID None, on bedrest, uses W/C, or nurse assists 0 Crutches, cane(s), walker 15 Furniture 30 IV/HEPARIN LOCK OR SALINE PIID No 0 Yes 20 GAIT/TRANSFERRING Normal, on bedrest, immobile 0 Weak (uses touch for balance) 10 Impaired (unsteady, difficulty rising to stand) 20 MENTAL STATUS Oriented to ...
[DOC File]Mental Illness/Intellectual/Developmental Disability ...
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DEMENTIA: Yes, I certify the patient under consideration has dementia as established by clinical examination and evidence of meeting ALL 5 criteria below. Yes, I certify the patient under consideration does not have another primary psychiatric diagnosis of a serious mental illness. Yes,
[DOC File]Comprehensive: Nursing Home, hip pain, change in mental status
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Change in mental status: Per staff PK has had a recent decrease in energy and increased lethargy over the last 1-2 months. He falls asleep during conversations and is unable to track conversation for longer than 5 min. His last MMSE = 24/30 on 4/22/94. JK states he has felt more tired than usual during the day and needs more naps in the last month.
[DOC File]Q3: Neurology Questions 2002
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A sudden change in mental status in a known patient, or an altered mental status in a new patient, should trigger an evaluation of delirium. Some patients are at higher risk for delirium than others, including the elderly, patients with prior head injury or stroke, patients with HIV or other chronic medical illness, and those with a history of ...
[DOCX File]Clinical Documentation Query - Michigan State University
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Most inpatients with an acutely altered mental status actually have “encephalopathy” causing it and should be diagnosed as such since “altered mental status” is a NONSPECIFIC SYMPTOM. Recognition of encephalopathy is crucial for accurate documentation of the severity of illness of hospitalized patients.
[DOC File]10-29-07 Delirium
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Mental Status Exam – will show changes in consciousness, orientation, attention, mood & affect. ... altered EEG findings – fast low voltage activity. Attention Deficit ... ( dementia ( death or chronic delirious state. Morbidity and mortality –
[DOC File]University of Maryland School of Medicine
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1983-present Neurology Residents Lecture Series (Altered Mental Status, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Non-Alzheimer’s Dementias, Rapidly Progressive Dementias, Movement Disorder Emergencies, Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus) 1987- 2010 Morning Report, Department of Neurology
Ohio University
It is paramount to talk to family or friends of all patients with an “altered mental status”; this is because patients with dementia almost always have a long history of gradually worsening deficits, whereas with delirium, the onset is almost always acute;
[DOC File]Topic - Pinson & Tang
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Based on your medical judgment, can you further clarify in the progress notes if these findings associated with altered mental status are due to a definite or suspected underlying neurologic cause such as: Metabolic Encephalopathy. Toxic Encephalopathy. Altered mental status without encephalopathy. Other condition (please specify)
[DOC File]The Mental Status Examination - Brown University
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The patient’s attention and concentration during the interview should be noted. Most screening tests for dementia include a test of these items. For example, on the Folstein Mini-Mental Status Examination (below), a patient is asked to do serial seven’s (described below).
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