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Patient Differentiate Stroke Hypoglycemic Kinds Alert Attempting Communicate

Front What is one way to differentiate between a patient who has had a stroke, and a hypoglycemic patient?
Back One way to differentiate between these two kinds of patients is:
A patient who has had a stroke may be alert and attempting to communicate normally, whereas a patient with hypoglycemia almost always has an altered or decreased level of consciousness.

Tags: 15, emergencies, neurologic

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