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Altered mental status and fever

• Infectious
  • Sepsis
  • Meningitis
  • Encephalitis
  • Cerebral malaria
  • Brain abscess
• Other
  • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
  • Serotonin syndrome
  • Malignant hyperthermia
  • Sympathomimetic toxicity (cocaine, amphetamine, ketamine)
  • Anticholinergic toxicity
  • Heat stroke
  • Delirium tremens
  • Hypothalamic stroke
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • Thyroid storm