Assessment Flashcards
1
Q
AEIOUTIPS
What is this acornym helping you assess?
A
A - alcohol
E - Exposure
I - Insulin
O - Overdose
U - Underdose
T - trauma
I - Infection
P - Poisons
S - Stroke/shock
Things that cause AMS
2
Q
MEND A MIND
what it stands for
What is helping you assess
A
M- Medabolic (electrolytes)
E - Electrical (Epilepsy, temporal lobe seizures)
N - Nutrition (Anemia)
D - Drugs/toxins (street or medical drugs)
A - Arterial (stroke, TIA)
M- Mechanical (Brain injury, hematoma)
I - Infection (HIV, syphilis, meningitis, Hep-c)
N -Neoplastic (tumor)
D - Degenerative (alzheimers, parkinsons, Multiple sclerosis)
Things that produce psychiatric symptoms
