Tremor

Tremor is a topic covered in the Diagnosaurus.

To view the entire topic, please or .

Emergency Central is a collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals created for emergency medicine professionals. Explore these free sample topics:

-- The first section of this topic is shown below --

Etiology

  • Enhanced physiologic tremor, eg, anxiety
  • Essential (familial) tremor
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Cerebellar tremor, eg, multiple sclerosis
  • Adult-onset idiopathic dystonia
  • Wilson's disease
  • Drugs: caffeine, alcohol withdrawal, sympathomimetics, antipsychotics, theophylline, metoclopramide, lithium, levothyroxine, tricyclic antidepressants, valproic acid, reserpine
  • Psychogenic tremor

-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please or --

Etiology

  • Enhanced physiologic tremor, eg, anxiety
  • Essential (familial) tremor
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Cerebellar tremor, eg, multiple sclerosis
  • Adult-onset idiopathic dystonia
  • Wilson's disease
  • Drugs: caffeine, alcohol withdrawal, sympathomimetics, antipsychotics, theophylline, metoclopramide, lithium, levothyroxine, tricyclic antidepressants, valproic acid, reserpine
  • Psychogenic tremor

There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.