Altered Mental Status: Current Evidence-based Recommendations for Prehospital Care

In the United States emergency medical services (EMS) protocols vary widely across jurisdictions. We sought to develop evidence-based recommendations for the prehospital evaluation and treatment of a patient with an acute change in mental status and to compare these recommendations against the current protocols used by the 33 EMS agencies in the State of California.We performed a literature review of the current evidence in the prehospital...