COMMON CAUSES OF REDUCED CONSCIOUSNESS

• Common causes of reduced consciousness listed using the Pneumonic for differential diagnosis TIN CAN BED PAN
  • Trauma/toxins
    • Intracranial haemorrhage leading to raised intracranial pressure
    • Kidney disease leading to raised urea
  • Infection
    • Sepsis
    • Meningitis
    • Encephalitis
  • Neoplasm
    • Intercranial space occupying lesion
  • Circulatory
    • Hypoxia
    • Hypercapnia
  • Autoimmune
  • Neurological
    • Post-ictal
  • Blood/Bone
    •  Hypo/hypernatraemia
  • Endocrine
    •  Hypo/hyperglycaemia
    •  Hypothyroidism
  • Drugs
    • Opioids
    • Alcohol
    • Anaesthetic drugs
    • Benzodiazepines
  • Psychosomatic
  • Allergic
  • Not known