%0 Journal Article
%T A 37-year-old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Urinary Frequency
%A Deepa Ravikumar
%A Michelle Lin
%J Western Journal of Emergency Medicine : Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
%D 2013
%I UC Irvine Health School of Medicine.
%X We present a case report of a patient who initially presented with altered mental status andsignificant urinary frequency. Over the course of her emergency department stay, she thendeveloped tachycardia out of proportion to a new fever along with a respiratory alkalosis. Althougheach objective finding has a broad differential diagnosis, thyroid storm was the only unifyingdiagnosis when all findings were present.
%K emergency medicine
%K thyroid storm
%K respiratory alkalosis
%K alkalosis
%K tachycardia
%U http://escholarship.org/uc/item/23p5z5mj