NUBE 2025

Frequently, patients present with psychiatric symptoms and turn out to have a medical etiology. Many of these medical mimics are commonly known such as hypoglycemia and myxedema coma but some are less common which makes them more difficult to diagnosis and manage.  This course will focus on some of the less common etiologies of such psychiatric presentations including catatonia and NMDA receptor antagonist. Evaluation and treatment in the emergency department using case presentations.

Learning Objectives:

To list non-traditional causes for patient presenting with psychotic features or depression symptoms.

To describe the lorazepam challenge for patients with catatonia and expected outcome.

To define procedures needed to determine a definitive etiology for rare medical mimics.