7/3/23, 11:53 PM Reduced level of consciousness Pathway Feedback Search Clinical Topics Home Findings Reduced level of consciousness Reduced level of consciousness More common causes Acute altitude sickness Liver cirrhosis Alcohol use disorder Hypothermia Malaria infection East African sleeping sickness Chloral hydrate Hypoglycemia Brain death West African sleeping sickness Shock Electrical injury Temper tantrum Skull fracture Drug abuse Hypovolemic shock Narcolepsy with cataplexy Intracranial hemorrhage Intracranial abscess https://web.pathway.md/findings/recaEIeVqX4i7Ru14 1/3 7/3/23, 11:53 PM Reduced level of consciousness Pathway General anesthesia Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state Acute spinal cord injury Less common causes Hypothyroidism Ventricular fibrillation Cardiac arrest Acute kidney injury Fat embolism Thiamine deficiency Diabetic ketoacidosis Subdural hemorrhage Acute bacterial meningitis Respiratory failure Acute viral encephalitis Syncope Drug overdose Asphyxiation Pituitary apoplexy Antipsychotic agents Complications of ureterosigmoidostomy Subarachnoid hemorrhage Near-drowning Meningoencephalitis Heat stroke Narcolepsy https://web.pathway.md/findings/recaEIeVqX4i7Ru14 2/3 7/3/23, 11:53 PM Reduced level of consciousness Pathway Epidural hemorrhage Intracranial hypertension Arginosuccinic aciduria Rabies Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Uremic encephalopathy Uncommon causes Fumarate hydratase deficiency Hypermagnesaemia Carbon monoxide toxicity Plasma membrane carnitine transporter deficiency Carbamoylphosphate synthetase deficiency Chloral betaine Cone shell poisoning Long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase deficiency Hyperbaric sickness https://web.pathway.md/findings/recaEIeVqX4i7Ru14 3/3