How do you decide whether to hold chronic medications with sedation potential in patients presenting with acute encephalopathy?
For example, how do you decide whether to continue, reduce, or hold chronic antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics, pain medications, etc.?
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Do you typically hold chronic medications with sedation potential in patients presenting with acute encephalopathy?
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Psychiatry · Thapar Renu K Office
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As soon as the patient comes, I recommend medication levels where possible to decide if essential medications with sedation potential should be stopped.
Also, basic labs to get to the cause of the mental status change, including the scans and an EEG.
In case all that is not possible, then depending ...
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