🩺 Symptom Guide
Altered Mental Status
Assess urgently for hypoglycaemia, stroke, meningitis/encephalitis, sepsis, seizure, toxicology, hypoxia, hypercapnia, and shock.
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Red flags
- Reduced GCS
- rapidly worsening consciousness
- airway compromise
- hypoxia
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first
- secure airway and support breathing if GCS is low or airway reflexes are impaired
- record full vitals, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, GCS, and capillary glucose immediately
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- History, examination, and investigations
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