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Survey study of the etiology of non-traumatic altered consciousness in the Emergency Department at Suez Canal University Hospital in Egypt.

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Author	Moussa, Bassant S Abd Elatiff, Zeinab M Kamal Eldin Elhadary, Ghada M
Copyright Year	2023
Abstract	BACKGROUNDDisorders of consciousness including coma in non-trauma patients can be caused by a wide variety of pathologies affecting the central nervous system. They represent a frequent challenge in emergency medicine and are combined with a very high in-hospital mortality. Hence, early treatment of these patients is vital and increases the likelihood of a good outcome.AIMTo identify the causes of altered consciousness presentation to the Emergency Department at Suez Canal University Hospital.METHODSThis was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 87 patients with acute non-traumatic disturbed level of consciousness (DLOC) at the Emergency Department.RESULTSThe mean age of the studied patients was 60.5 ± 13.6 years. Among them, 60% were males and 40% were females. The most common cause of acute non-traumatic DLOC was systemic infection, such as sepsis and septic shock (25.3%), followed by respiratory causes (24.1%) and neurological causes (18.4%).CONCLUSIONThe most common cause of acute non-traumatic DLOC was systemic infections followed by respiratory and neurological causes.
Volume Number	11
PubMed Central reference number	PMC10013117
Issue Number	6
PubMed reference number	36926139
Journal	World Journal of Clinical Cases
e-ISSN	23078960
DOI	10.12998/wjcc.v11.i6.1310
Language	English
Publisher	Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
Publisher Date	2023-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
Subject Keyword	Disturbed level of consciousness Non-traumatic Emergency department
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine

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