Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Oct 1992
Delirium and acute psychosis. Mental states calling for clear diagnostic thinking and careful management.
Management of a delirious or acutely psychotic patient calls for rapid but well-considered decision making by the treating physician. Clear diagnostic thinking is vitally important in making a presumptive diagnosis and forming a treatment plan. Appropriate treatment usually returns patients to a less agitated state and allows for definitive treatment of any underlying illness.