RT Book, Section
A1 Brady, Ken
A1 Beca, John
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182925282
T1 Acute Neurological Dysfunction
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182925282
RD 2024/04/20
AB Altered  consciousness  can  be  a  manifestation  of  a  variety  of  disease  processes.  It  is  commonly  indicative  of  life-threatening  illness  that  requires  urgent  stabilization,  diagnosis,  and  institution  of  disease-specific  therapy  to  prevent  ongoing  neurologic  injury  and  long-term  neurodevelopmental  disability.  Although  the  anatomic  structures  related  to  consciousness  have  been  defined,  depressed  consciousness  is  usually  poorly  localized  to  specific  nervous  system  pathways,  and  often  represents  the  consequence  of  a  failed  non-neurologic  organ  system.