An altered patient in front of you could be a stroke, a seizure, a diabetic, an overdose, or a dozen other things. Before you chase a diagnosis, you rule out what you can actually fix on scene.
Run these every time:
Once you've worked those five, the rest of the differential is bigger, and that's what AEIOU-TIPS is for: Alcohol, Epilepsy/Electrolytes, Insulin, Overdose, Uremia, Trauma, Infection, Psychiatric, Stroke/Seizure. You're not running all nine letters on every call. You're using them so you don't forget a category.
That's the frame for the rest of this lesson: two organ systems, stroke and seizure, sitting inside that bigger differential. Both of them get worked the same way. Reversible causes first.
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