Your 71-year-old client is brought to the emergency department with a change in consciousness and level of consciousness. His family reports that he was his "normal self" yesterday. You suspect:
1. mental confusion.
2. chronic confusion.
3. delirium.
4. dementia.
ANS: 3
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