A 58-year-old man is admitted with acute-onset fever, altered mental status, and seizures. EEG shows the pattern marked **A** in the diagram—bilateral independent periodic sharp-wave complexes firing at different rates over each hemisphere, with markedly suppressed background activity. Which of the following is the MOST IMPORTANT immediate diagnostic and therapeutic consideration?
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