AMS 2026 – Study Guide, Practice Questions & Exam Preparation

AMS 2026 – Study Guide, Practice Questions & Exam Preparation


- Behavior is unusual for individual / deviates from social norms

- Based on judgement of someone other than the patient - ANS ✔✔confusion



acute change in attention, perception, thinking and memory - ANS ✔✔delirium



gradual, progressive impairment of memory (recent mem) - ANS ✔✔dementia



-acute onset

-any age

-pre-existing med problems

-visual hallucination

-sx flucuate over hrs to days - ANS ✔✔medical AMS



-gradual (wks to mos)

-younger adults

-less comorbidies

-auditory hallucinations - ANS ✔✔psychiatric



SIS - six item recall screens for - ANS ✔✔cog impairment



SIS score of __ = cog impairment - ANS ✔✔< 5



quick confusion scale (QCS) screens for - ANS ✔✔cog impairment