Emergency Medicine Attending AdventHealth Tampa Tampa, Florida
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Your “crazy” patient could actually be dying. This lecture will help you learn how to identify deadly medical diseases that can masquerade as primary psychiatric disease, such as autoimmune encephalitis, seizures, and neurosyphilis through case-based scenarios.
Learning Objectives:
List 3 medical causes of "acute psychosis"
Identify patients presenting with psychiatric complaints who should receive a workup for medical causes
Describe the evidence-based ED workup for autoimmune encephalitis, neurosyphilis, and seizures
List at least 3 medical causes of "acute psychosis"