Altered Mental Status in the Elderly: Neurologic Nightmares

Altered Mental Status in the Elderly: Neurologic Nightmares
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The elderly patient with altered mental status presents a difficult diagnostic challenge to the emergency physician. Differentiating acutely decompensated progressive dementia from other organic and reversible causes of altered mental status is challenging. The speaker will dissect these difficult diagnostic dilemmas and discuss how to approach elderly patients with altered mental status in a comprehensive but selective and cost-effective manner.

  • Review the diagnostic approach to elderly patients with altered mental status.
  • Discuss the unique challenges of elderly patients with altered mental status.
  • Describe how to differentiate between dementia and reversible causes of altered mental status.
  • Present the appropriate and cost-effective evaluation of elderly patients with altered mental status.


Altered Mental Status in the Elderly: Neurologic Nightmares