AEIOU TIPS
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Ealiest known use is from April 1980 in a paper by Carl C. Bell.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Northern California): (file)
Noun
[edit]AEIOU TIPS (uncountable)
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of alcohol, epilepsy, insulin, overdose, underdose/uremia, trauma, infection, psychiatric, stroke/shock: reasons why a patient may have an altered mental state. [from 1980]
References
[edit]- ^ Carl C. Bell (1980 April) “States of Consciousness”, in Journal of the National Medical Association, volume 72, number 4, page 333: “A simple way to remember the various etiologic agents which cause such states is by remembering AEIOU TIPS: A—Alcohol, E—Epilepsy, I—Infection, O—Opium and other drugs, U—Uremia, T—Trauma, I—Insulin, too much or too little, P—Poisons, and S—Shock.”