title: Delirium and acute psychosis. Mental states calling for clear diagnostic thinking and careful management.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Westreich
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Bialer
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003693:Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy